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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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| publisher = INSPEC, IEE
| location= London, UK
| date = 1994
| isbn=0-85296-880-9 }}</ref> The properties that make CdTe superior for the realization of high performance gamma- and x-ray detectors are high atomic number, large bandgap and high electron mobility ~1100&nbsp;cm<sup>2</sup>/V·s, which result in high intrinsic μτ (mobility-lifetime) product and therefore high degree of charge collection and excellent spectral resolution.

==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
|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''
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