An accurate description of the radiation quality of proton beams is a precondition to increase our understanding of radiobiological mechanisms and to develop accurate biological response models for radiotherapy. However, there are few detectors capable of measuring microdosimetric quantities with...

Microdosimetry is a particularly powerful method to estimate the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of any mixed radiation field. This is particularly convenient for therapeutic heavy ion therapy (HIT) beams, referring to ions larger than protons, where the RBE of the beam can vary...

Microdosimetry provides measurements of stochastic lineal energy deposition on a micrometric sensitive volume (SV), comparable to human cell dimensions. Conventional microdosimeter uses a tissue equivalent proportional counter (TEPC) that requires high voltage operation, are bulky and have poor...

Silicon radiation sensors typically have an inactive volume at the device periphery necessary to accommodate multiple guard-rings and current terminating structures necessary to deliver increased breakdown voltage and stability and to shield the active area from the defects induced by the dicing...

Detectors with high radiation tolerance and high time resolution are required for charged particle in high physics and space applications. 3D detectors were introduced by S. Parker 1 in the middle 90’ and they represented a starting point for evolved device able to work at fluency up to...