Conversion gain fluctuation in electron-hole pair creation: Swank factor of CdZnTe

G. L. Khym, K. H. Kim, S. U. Kim, Hyung Jin Yang

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    Abstract

    Cadmium zinc telluride (CdZnTe) is currently of interest as a photoconductor in direct conversion digital X-ray medical imaging. A critical performance parameter of an X-ray detector is the Swank factor for degradation of the signal to noise ratio, or zero spatial frequency detective quantum efficiency, due to conversion gain fluctuation in electron-hole pair creation. Based on the measured electron-hole pair creation energy and energy band gap, the Swank factor is evaluated by the Markov process. At incident X-ray energy below the K-edge of Cd, the Swank factor is nearly 1.0. At higher energy above the K-edge of Cd, however, the Swank factor is largely affected by the escape of Cd/Te characteristic X-rays, If the photon energy is below the K-edge of Cd, the fluctuation in EHP creation has almost no influence on detector performance.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)S538-S541
    JournalJournal of the Korean Physical Society
    Volume45
    Issue numberSUPPL.
    Publication statusPublished - 2004 Dec

    Keywords

    • CdZnTe
    • DQE
    • Detective Quantum Efficiency
    • High resistivity
    • Monte Carlo method
    • Polycrystalline
    • Swank factor

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Physics and Astronomy

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