Neutron-based experimental techniques have been continuously improved, refined and
strengthened since the pioneering experiments conducted by Clifford Shull and Bertram …

Detection of neutrons, at high total efficiency, with greater resolution in kinetic energy, time
and/or real-space position, is fundamental to the advance of subfields within nuclear …

Neutron detection is an integral part of the global effort to prevent the proliferation of special
nuclear material (SNM). Applications relying on neutron-detection technology range from …

Micro-strip metal–semiconductor–metal detectors for thermal neutron sensing were
fabricated from hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) epilayers synthesized by metal organic …

A boron carbide diode detector, fabricated from two different polytypes of semiconducting
boron carbide, will detect neutrons in reasonable agreement with theory. Small deviations …

Perforated semiconductor neutron detectors are compact diode detectors that operate at low
power and can be fashioned to have high thermal neutron detection efficiency. Fabricated …

Perforated silicon structures backfilled with either B10 or LiF6 are presently under
construction as high efficiency thermal-neutron detectors. Although many perforated …

Semiconductor diode detectors coated with neutron reactive materials have been
investigated as neutron detectors for many decades, and are fashioned mostly as planar …

The pillar structured thermal neutron detector is based on the combination of high aspect
ratio silicon pin pillars surrounded by the neutron converter material 10 B. By etching high …

Current helium-3 tube based thermal neutron detectors have shortcomings in achieving
simultaneously high efficiency and low voltage while maintaining adequate fieldability …