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Development History of Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs)
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Table 2528. The detailed development history of silicon drift detectors.
Date |
Name/organization |
Milestone |
1949 |
Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley in Bell Telephone Laboratories |
Invention of the bipolar junction transistor [2] |
1949 |
McKay |
Used point contact rectifiers on germanium to build a crystal counter [3] |
Early 1950s |
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Single crystals became available |
Until the end of 1970s |
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Nearly all silicon detectors were lithium-drifted detectors [4]. |
1970s |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009: Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle, George E. Smith |
About a novel semiconductor device
concept — the Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) [5] |
Early 1980s |
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Nuclear detector development |
1982 |
Emilio Gatti and Pavel Rehak (Brookhaven National Lab) |
Had the genial idea to develop a semiconductor drift chamber |
1983 |
Emilio Gatti and Pavel Rehak |
Presented the first experimental results related to their silicon drift chamber |
1984 |
Emilio Gatti and Pavel Rehak |
Published a paper with their first experimental results related to the silicon drift chamber [1] |
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1995 |
Rontec (now Bruker) in cooperation with MPI and Ketek |
Introduce EDS and XRF SDD detectors |
1997 |
Photon Imaging (now Seiko) |
Introduce XRF SDD detector |
2000-2007 |
All major EDS companies |
Apply SDD technology to electron beam instruments |
2004 |
Thermo Fisher Scientific |
Peak and resolution stability |
2006 |
Bruker AXS |
Quad 10 mm2 detector |
2006 |
Thermo Fisher Scientific |
30 mm2 SDD |
2007 |
Thermo Fisher Scientific |
Good low-energy (Be-K) performance |
2008 |
Oxford Instruments |
80 mm2 SDD |
[1] E. Gatti, P. Rehak, Semiconductor Drift Chamber - An Application of a Novel Charge Transport Scheme, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 225, 1984, pp. 608-614.
[2] M. Riordan, L. Hoddeson, in: Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and
the Birth of the Information Age, Norton, 1997.
[3] K. G. McKay, Phys. Rev. 76 (1949) 1537.
[4] J. T. Walton, H. A. Sommer, D. E. Greiner, F. S. Bieser, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-25
(1978) 391.
[5] https://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2009/index.html.
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