Arnold Burger  -  Research

My research interests include new approaches to growth and characterization of electronic and optoelectronic materials such as novel binary and ternary compounds semiinsulating single  crystals; characterization of electrical, optical and thermal properties of these compounds; design, fabrication and evaluation of electronic devices, such as room temperature radiation detectors; solid-state laser materials, development of optical, in-situ characterization during the crystal growth.

Applications:

- Astrophysics: high-energy detectors for space-based X-ray and gamma-ray missions (eg., member of the Technical Working Group -Detectors in the EXIST)

- Medical imaging: small animal gamma-ray imagers and nuclear medicine gamma-cameras based on cadmium zinc telluride

- National security: portable room temperature spectrometers and sensors for identification of radionucleides.

In the above areas our research group produced numerous publications and presentations (11 invited ones at national and international meetings), 6 book chapters, edited two proceedings, three awarded U.S. Patents (here are two: 5,365,876 and 5,933,706).  We currently have a research effort being carried out in the purification of electronic materials and growth and characterization of semiconducting crystals such as HgI₂, PbI₂, ZnSe, Te-Se, CdSe, CdSSe, ZnCdTe (CZT) and AgGaTe₂

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