Radiation powered high dose rate and high dose radiation sensor
AssigneeGold Standard Radiation Detection, Inc.
InventorMark Derzon
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Abstract
The present invention provides apparatuses comprising a plurality of junctions providing a Seebeck effect, configured as alternating hot and cold junctions. The apparatus can be configured such that the cold junctions exhibit a different thermal behavior than the hot junctions in response to incident radiation. The junctions can be connected in series, such that the sum of the Seebeck effect from the plurality of junctions provides a sensitive, inherently calibrated indication of heating of the apparatus responsive to incident radiation, and therefore of the radiation itself.
Claims20
An apparatus for the measurement of penetrating or ionizing radiation incident along a radiation axis, comprising:
- (a) a first plurality of elements comprising a first material;
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- (b) a second plurality of elements comprising a second material;
- (c) the first plurality of elements and second plurality of elements being configured to form a first plurality of junctions and second plurality of junctions, connected in series comprising alternating junctions from the first plurality of junctions and the second plurality of junctions to define a series of junctions;
- a first junction in the series of junctions in electrical communication with a first electrode, and a last junction in the series of junctions in electrical communication with a second electrode;
- (d) junctions in the first plurality of junctions having a thermal response to penetrating or ionizing incident radiation different than a thermal response of junctions in the second plurality of junctions to penetrating or ionizing incident radiation based on at least one of (1) a distance between the first plurality of junctions and the second plurality of junctions and relative to a direction of the penetrating or ionizing incident radiation, or (2) differential shielding associated with the first plurality of junctions and the second plurality of junctions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.