Institute for Nuclear Research

Lectrical stabilization of CdZnTe by argon plasma treatment and diamond-like carbon passivation

The high specific resistance of CdZnTe-based radiation detectors enables high energy resolution and detection sensitivity, as it determines the device's leakage currents. In this work, an ion-plasma surface treatment was developed to enhance the electrical stability and radiation...

Probing dark matter interactions with a RES–NOVA prototype cryogenic detector

Abstract We report on the operation of a 13 g PbWO $$_4$$ 4 crystal, grown from archaeological Pb and operated as a cryogenic calorimeter in an underground environment. Read out with a Ge thermistor, the detector achieves a low energy threshold and, for the first time, enables th...