Study of ZnO photoconductive X-ray detector

Zhao Xiao-Long; Kang Xue; Chen Liang; Zhang Zhong-Bing; Liu Jin-Liang; Ouyang Xiao-ping; Peng Wen-Bo; He Yong-Ning

doi:10.7498/aps.63.098502

Abstract

Ag-ZnO-Ag X-ray detectors based on ZnO film and nanowires are both fabricated in this paper. Results of continuous X-ray radiation measurement show that the two detectors have high responsivity: the responsivity of the ZnO film device is about 0.12 μC/Gy under a 100 V bias voltage, and that of the ZnO nanowires device is about 0.15 μC/Gy under a 50 V bias voltage. Surface effect due to the absorption and desorption of oxygen on the ZnO surface, which makes the carrier lifetime increase, is decisive to the high responsivity. ZnO film and nanowires have their potential applications in the X-ray dose rate measurement.

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Authors and contacts

1.
The School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China;
2.
Radiation Detection Research Center, Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology, Xi'an 710024, China
Funds: Project Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 60876038, 11375144), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China in project of Investigation of ZnO Nanostructure Based Scintillators.

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