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[[Image:Detectors summary 3.png|thumb|right|250px|This tree diagram shows the relationship between types and classification of most common particle detectors. Credit: [[commons:User:Wdcf|Wdcf]].]]
'''Radiation detectors''' provide a signal that is converted to an electric current. The device is designed so that the current provided is proportional to the characteristics of the incident radiation.

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==Entities==
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'''Def.''' "the fraction of photoelectric events which end up in the photopeak of the measured energy spectrum"<ref name="Krawczynski">{{cite book
|author=Henric S. Krawczynski
 ; Ira Jung ; ⏎
|author2=Ira Jung
|author3=Jeremy S. Perkins ; ⏎
|author4=Arnold Burger ; ⏎
|author5=Michael Groza
|title=Thick CZT Detectors for Space-Borne X-ray Astronomy, In: ''Hard X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Detector Physics VI, 1''
|publisher=The International Society for Optical Engineering
|location=Denver, Colorado USA
|date=October 21, 2004
|volume=5540
|issue=
|pages=13
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|volume = 47
|issue = 32
|pages = 6064
|url = http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-47-32-6064
|pmid = 19002231
|bibcode = 2008ApOpt..47.6064M }}</ref> and submillimeter regions of the [[w:electromagnetic spectrum|electromagnetic spectrum]]. These filters have been used in FIR and submillimeter astronomical instruments for over 4 decades,<ref name="ade06">{{cite journal
|author = Ade, Peter A. R.
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|author2=Pisano, Giampaolo; ⏎
|author3=Tucker, Carole; ⏎
|author4=Weaver, Samuel
|title = A Review of Metal Mesh Filters
|journal = Millimeter and Submillimeter Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy III. Proceedings of the SPIE.
|year = 2006
|month = Jul
|volume = 6275
|pages = 62750U
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  I., Daiki, S.; Hirohiko, K.; Nobuhiro, S.; Kenji, I.
| title = Deterioration of pulse-shape discrimination in liquid organic scintillator at high energies | journal = Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Volume: 1 | volume = 1| issue = | pages = 6/219–6/221 vol.1 | publisher = IEEE | location = | year = 2000 | url = | doi = 10.1109/NSSMIC.2000.949173 | id = | isbn = 0-7803-6503-8 }}</ref> crystals,<ref>{{Cite journal
 | author = Kawaguchi N., Yanagida, T.
; Yokota, Y.; Watanabe, K.; Kamada, K.; Fukuda, K.; Suyama, T.; ⏎
|author2=Yokota, Y.
|author3=Watanabe, K.
|author4=Kamada, K.
|author5=Fukuda, K.
|author6=Suyama, T.
|author7=Yoshikawa, A. |⏎
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 title = Study of crystal growth and scintillation properties as a neutron detector of 2-inch diameter eu doped LiCaAlF6 single crystal | journal = Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC) | volume = | issue = | pages = 1493–1495 | publisher = IEEE | location = | year = 2009 | url = | doi = 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402299
 | isbn = 978-1-4244-3961-4 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.quantumdetectors.com/products/isis-neutron-beam-monitor Example crystal scintillator based neutron monitor.]</ref> plastics, glass<ref>{{Cite journal
| author = Bollinger L.M., Thomas, G.E.; ⏎
|author2=Ginther, R.J.
| title = Neutron Detection With Glass Scintillators
| journal = Nuclear Instruments and Methods
| volume = 17
| pages = 97–116
| publisher =
| location =
| year = 1962
}}</ref> and scintillation fibers.<ref>{{Cite journal
| author = Miyanaga N., Ohba, N.; ⏎
|author2=Fujimoto, K.
| title = Fiber scintillator/streak camera detector for burn history measurement in inertial confinement fusion experiment
| journal = Review of Scientific Instruments
| volume = 68
| issue = 1
| pages = 621–623
| publisher =
| location =
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|author=G. F. Knoll
|title=Radiation Detection and Measurement, 3rd edition
|publisher=Wiley
|date=1999
|isbn=978-0471073383 }}</ref>

Semiconductors have been used for neutron detection.<ref name="Miroshghi">{{cite journal
 | author = Mireshghi A., Cho, G.
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|author2=Drewery, J.S.; Hong, W.S.; Jing, T.; Lee, H.; ⏎
|author3=Hong, W.S.
|author4=Jing, T.
|author5=Lee, H.
|author6=Kaplan, S.N.; ⏎
|author7=Perez-Mendez, V.
 | title = High efficiency neutron sensitive amorphous silicon pixel detectors
 | journal = Nuclear Science
 | volume = 41
 | issue = 4 , Part: 1–2
 | pages = 915–921
 | publisher = IEEE
 | location =
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