Development history of silicon drift detectors (SDDs)

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		Single crystals became available
Until the end of 1970s		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		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]

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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