摘要 |
A multilayered radiation detector device (50) including a resonant cavity structure wherein one cavity wall electrode includes a portion of a photovoltaic radiation detector (52). Specifically, a RFM detector has a superconducting transmission line electrode (54) electrically coupled to a high mobility semiconductor layer (58) of the photovoltaic detector. The superconductor transmission line electrode inductance forms, in combinations with a photodetector depletion region capacitance, a series resonant or a parallel resonant circuit. A radiation-induced change in the capacitance results in a change in the circuit resonant frequency and a corresponding variation in the amplitude of an on-resonance RF signal applied to the circuit. In another embodiment the resonant cavity structure includes a gap having a width that is modulated by an amount of absorbed radiation, the radiation-induced change in the distributed cavity capacitance resulting in a change in the cavity resonant frequency.
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