When the topic is radiation detection, thoughts turn naturally to the venerable Geiger-Müller tube. It’s been around for ages, Russian surplus tubes are available for next to nothing, and it’s easy to ...

We’re assuming [Toumal] was desperately bored one day, because in the depths of the Internet he found some really cool components to build a solid state Geiger counter. The Arduino and touchscreen are ...

This application note discusses the design considerations, schematic and component selection to achieve a gamma-photon radiation detector. The design is composed of a PIN photodiode, four low-noise op ...