1st Edition
Solid-State Radiation Detectors Technology and Applications
Modern Semiconductor Pixel Detectors Used as Radiation Monitors. CdZnTe for Gamma- and X-Ray Applications. CdTe and CdZnTe Small Pixel Imaging Detectors. CdTe/CZT Spectrometers with 3-D Imaging Capabilities. CdTe Pixel Detectors for Hard X-Ray Astronomy. Technology Needs for Modular Pixel Detectors. Single Photon Processing Hybrid Pixel Detectors. Integrated Analog Signal-Processing Readout Front Ends for Particle Detectors. Spectral Molecular CT with Photon-Counting Detectors. Characterization of Photon-Counting Detectors with Synchrotron Radiation. Organic Semiconducting Single Crystals as Novel Room-Temperature, Low-Cost Solid-State Direct X-Ray Detectors. Lanthanum Halide and Cerium Bromide Scintillators. Novel X- and Gamma-Ray Detectors Based on Metamaterials. Gamma-Imaging Devices Based on Position-Sensitive Photomultipliers. Silicon Photomultipliers for High-Performance Scintillation Crystal Read-Out Applications.
Biography
Salah Awadalla obtained his Ph.D from the Department of Mechanical and Materials Science and Engineering at Washington State University, Pullman, USA. He is currently a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Taibah, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. In addition, he is the director of Teaching Laboratories and the Research and Development Program. In his professional career, Dr. Awadalla has held numerous positions ranging from staff scientist to manager and director at Washington State University and Redlen Technologies, Central Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. He has published more than 50 papers and holds more than eight U.S.-granted patents.
