Radiation Detectors Laboratory

The Radiation Detector Laboratory is one of a suite of rooms for reseach into new radiation detector devices and materials. Located within the Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Physics, these new facilities contain a range of radio-isotope and electro-optical characterisation equipment for charge transport studies in semiconductor detector materials such as cadmium zinc telluride (CdZnTe) and diamond. Through the window in the adjacent lab is our detector fabrication room, where we have the flexibility to fabricate prototype detector structures. The detector physics activity supports the experimental nuclear research programme in the department by developing new detectors for use in various international nuclear accelerator laboratories. There is also an extensive programme of detector development for medical imaging, synchrotron instrumentation, and space science.