Scientists from Russia and Slovakia Develop Detectors for Nuclear Physics

12:14, February 4, 2022

The project will receive 15 million rubles over three years from the Russian Ministry of Higher Education and Science

Scientists at Ural Federal University together with their colleagues from Slovakia plan to improve the efficiency of semiconductor detectors for nuclear physics. This project has received a grant from the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education - the amount of research funding for the creation of this promising technology will total 15 million rubles over three years.

The project "Prospective Semiconductor Detectors for Nuclear Physics" of the Ural Federal University Institute of Physics and Technology will be implemented jointly with the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Scientists will study the optical properties and spectrometric characteristics of detector structures with different contact metallization based on SiC, GaAs, and diamond-like structures. In addition, changes in these properties when exposed to radiation fields of different nature will be studied. All this will make it possible to create even more accurate and durable detectors for use in the nuclear industry, both in current work and for various experiments. Another important area of application is research in space, where the role of such detectors is also extremely important.

"The project is another step in the development of the university's competencies in the field of civilian radiation and nuclear technologies. Interaction with scientists from Slovakia began as part of the international IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) technical cooperation project on the use of radiation equipment for processing technologies for various purposes, scientific research, student training, and advanced training," says Vladimir Ivanov, director of Institute of Physics and Technology at UrFU.

Vladimir Ivanov adds that the initiative and coordination of Ural Federal University employees' participation in such projects belongs to Oleg Ryabukhin, associate professor of the Department of Experimental Physics at the Federal Institute of Physics and Technology and leading specialist in analytical work at the Innovation and Implementation Center for Radiation Sterilization.

The news article was translated by UrFU International Marketing Office
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