ABSTRACT

The manufacture of high-purity silicon (HPSi) and high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors does not differ basically from that of Si(Li) detectors described in Chapter 5, except of course that the lithium drifting stages are omitted. The geometries used are similar and the same contact technologies (Chapter 4) can be used. We will discuss in this chapter the details of the differences in each case and point out any differences regarding their operation.