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astro-ph.IM2022
Performance of the X-Calibur Hard X-Ray Polarimetry Mission during its 2018/19 Long-Duration Balloon Flight
Quincy Abarr, Banafsheh Beheshtipour, Matthias Beilicke +28
X-Calibur is a balloon-borne telescope that measures the polarization of high-energy X-rays in the 15--50keV energy range. The instrument makes use of the fact that X-rays scatter…
astro-ph.IM2009
Leakage Currents and Capacitances of Thick CZT Detectors
Alfred Garson, Qiang Li, Ira V. Jung +4
The quality of Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) detectors is steadily improving. For state of the art detectors, readout noise is thus becoming an increasingly important factor for the…
astro-ph2007
Test of CZT Detectors with Different Pixel Pitches and Thicknesses
Qiang Li, Alfred III Garson, Ira Jung +6
The Modified Horizontal Bridgman (MHB) process produces Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) crystals with high yield and excellent homogeneity. Various groups,including our own, previousl…