The Response Characteristics of as Addition Ratio of Arsenic in $CaWO_4/a-Se$ based X-ray Conversion Sensor

$CaWO_4/a-Se$ 구조의 X선 변환센서에서 a-Se의 Arsenic 첨가량에 따른 반응 특성

  • Kang, Sang-Sik (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Inje University) ;
  • Suk, Dae-Woo (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Inje University) ;
  • Cho, Sung-Ho (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Inje University) ;
  • Kim, Jae-Hyung (Medical Imaging Research center of Inje University) ;
  • Nam, Namg-Hee (Medical Imaging Research center of Inje University)
  • 강상식 (인제대학교 의생명공학대학 의용공학과) ;
  • 석대우 (인제대학교 의생명공학대학 의용공학과) ;
  • 조성호 (인제대학교 의생명공학대학 의용공학과) ;
  • 김재형 (인제대학교 의료 영상 연구소) ;
  • 남상희 (인제대학교 의료 영상 연구소)
  • Published : 2002.11.07

Abstract

There are being two prominent studying for Digital Radiography. Direct and Indirect method of Digital Radiography are announced for producing high quality digital image. The one is using amorphous selenium as photoconductor and the other is using phosphor layer as a light conversion. But each two systems have strength and weakness such as high voltage and blurring effect. In this study, we investigated the electrical characteristic of $multi-layer\left(CaWO_{4}+a-Se \right)$ as a photoconductor according to the changing arsenic composition ratio. This is a basic research for developing of Hybrid digital radiography which is a new type X-ray detector. The arsenic composition ratio of a-Se compound is classified into 7 different kinds which have 0.1%, 0.3%, 0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, 5%, 10% and were made test sample throught thermo-evaporation. The phosphor layer of $CaWO_4$ was overlapped on a-Se using EFIRON optical adhesives. We measured the dark and photo current about the test sample and compared the electrical characteristic of the net charge and signal-to-noise ratio. Among other things, test sample of compound material of 0.3% arsenic showed good characteristic of $2.45nA/cm^2$ dark current and $357.19pC/cm^2/mR$ net charge at $3V/{\mu}m$.

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