Silicon tracking detectors—historical overview

Ionizing Radiation Detector for Environmental Awareness in FPGA-Based Flight Computers

“…The strip detector is used as the basis for this design because of its simplicity, speed, and ease of production. These strip detectors can also have high resolution due to the nature of the design [15][16]. The principle of the strip detector is very similar to the PN junction sensing described previously.…”

Particle and nuclear physics instrumentation and its broad connections

“…Currently, detectors and electronics exist which are capable of surviving doses of 10 Megarad and fluxes of 10 15 neutrons/cm 2 , or higher. The application of silicon tracking detectors has expanded to nuclear physics, solid-state physics, astrophysics, biology, and medicine (Turala, 2005).…”

CDF silicon tracking detectors, 1988–2011

“…The application of silicon detectors for high-energy physics began to be explored in the beginning of the 1980s for detecting short lived particles [1]. An important breakthrough in 1980 was the demonstration of the production of silicon detectors using the standard planar process [2], which led to the industrialization of sensor production.…”