Radiometric detector

Abstract

A detector for radiometric measuring systems, whose scintillator and photodiode are compactly dimensioned and optically coupled such that they are optically shieldingly encapsulatable by microelectronic construction and joining technologies. A corresponding, shared encapsulation for the scintillator and semiconductor component, which includes the at least one photodiode, can be provided according to any IC package-type, such as, for example, “Through Hole” or “Surface Mount”. Accordingly, the evaluation signal, which the photodiode produces as a function of the scintillator entering, radioactive radiation intensity, can be tapped, for example, via an output-pin of the encapsulation. Advantageous for the detector is thus its manageability as a conventionally populatable electronic component. This enables modular construction of radioactive measuring systems to adapt with little constructive effort individually to particular fields of application.

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