Radiation detectors fabricated on high-purity GaAs epitaxial materials

Epitaxial GaAs material shows a great potential in X-ray spectroscopy and radiography applications due to its high absorption efficiency and low defect density. Fabrication of pixel radiation detectors from high-purtity epitaxial GaAs has been developed further. The process is based on mesa etching for pixellisation and sputtering for metallization. The leakage currents of processed pad detectors are below 10 nA/cm(2) at a reverse bias of 100V and decrease exponentially with the temperature. Measurement with transient current technique (TCT) shows that electrons have a trapping time of 8 ns. Good spectroscopic result were obtained from both a pad detector and a hybridized Medipix GaAs detector.