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Mercuric Iodide Crystal Growth and Frisch Collar Detector Fabrication
Nuclear Technology / Volume 175 / Number 1 / July 2011 / Pages 124-130
Technical Paper / Special Issue on the 16th Biennial Topical Meeting of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division / Materials for Nuclear Systems / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NT11-A12280
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Being a high-Z material, mercuric iodide (HgI2) has a relatively high gamma-ray absorption coefficient. Its low charge carrier mobilities, however, have somewhat hampered the interest in using this material as a room-temperature gamma-ray spectrometer. By using the Frisch collar technology, the influence of the low charge carrier can be significantly reduced. The growth of HgI2 by the Faile method in a horizontal furnace fortuitously produces tetragonal prismatic crystals. These crystals with appropriate dimensions can be fabricated into Frisch collar spectrometers. With the Frisch collar technology, 1.8% energy resolution for 662-keV gamma rays has been achieved.
