4 papers
Machine-Learning Optimization of Detector-Grade Yield in High-Purity Germanium Crystal Growth
Athul Prem, Dongming Mei, Sanjay Bhattarai +2
High-purity germanium (HPGe) crystals underpin some of the most sensitive detectors used in fundamental physics and other high-resolution radiation-sensing applications. Despite th…
Depletion-limited Effective Hall mobility in Micrometer-Scale High-Purity Germanium Crystals
Narayan Budhathoki, Dongming Mei, Sanjay Bhattarai +5
Electrostatic effects can strongly constrain charge transport in thinned high-purity germanium (HPGe), with direct implications for radiation detectors and Ge-based electronic and…
Evaluating the Effective Segregation Coefficient in High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) Crystals for Ge Detector Development in Rare-Event Searches
S. Chhetri, D. -M. Mei, S. Bhattarai +5
The performance and scalability of rare-event physics experiments depend on large-volume, detector-grade high-purity germanium (HPGe) crystals with precise control of impurity segr…
Probing low-mass dark matter from sub-MeV to sub-GeV with germanium-based quantum phononic spectroscopy
D. -M. Mei, N. Budhathoki, S. A. Panamaldeniya +5
We present a germanium phonon-to-charge transducer that integrates a slow-phonon phononic-crystal (PnC) region with radio-frequency quantum point-contact (RF-QPC) readout at 4 K, a…