Rhombic Corporation - Neutron Detector to Be Developed.VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 1999-- Rhombic rhom·bic adj. 1. Relating to the rhombencephalon. 2. Rhomboid. Corporation announces that the company has acquired the technology to develop a solid state diamond based neutron monitor/detection device. Because of the company's expertise in diamond films, and its patented "Forced Diffusion" technology, work on the monitor/detection device can be developed at the University of Missouri alongside other applications of "Forced Diffusion". Rhombic Corporation is planning to develop the concept of a very small solid state monitor/detector. This would mean it also would be portable, and useful in personnel monitoring at nuclear power plants, as a portable detector of weapon's grade nuclear materials, as a sensor for nuclear reactors, and as a device for small area flux profiling. By varying the doping doping, in electronics: see semiconductor. Altering the electrical conductivity of a semiconductor material, such as silicon, by chemically combining it with foreign elements. element infused into diamond through "Forced Diffusion", it is predicted that an array of detectors could be built that are sensitive to various energy neutrons. Such an array could do small area spectrum analysis of neutron energies. This proposed device also would be saleable sale·a·ble adj. Variant of salable. saleable or US salable Adjective fit for selling or capable of being sold saleability or US to the purchasers of the Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Inertial electrostatic confinement (often abbreviated as IEC) is a concept for retaining a plasma using an electrostatic field. The field accelerates charged particles (either ions or electrons) radially inward, usually in a spherical but sometimes in a cylindrical geometry. (IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iec.ch) An organization that sets international electrical and electronics standards founded in 1906. It is made up of national committees from over 60 countries. IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission ) fusion devices soon to be produced in Europe. The IEC devices create neutrons by the millions per second through fusion of hydrogen atoms. Rhombic's proposed monitor/detector would help track the neutron activity. |
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