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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2023
Ut-battelle, Llc, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Yacouba Diawara, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Vladislav N. Sedov, Knoxville, TN (US);
Loren Lynn Funk, Knoxville, TN (US);
Justin David Beal, Knoxville, TN (US);
Bradley Thomas Bochenek, Knoxville, TN (US);
Christopher Aaron Montcalm, Harriman, TN (US);
UT-Battelle, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Abstract
A neutron monitoring system includes an entrance window that enables neutrons to penetrate the system while attenuating some undesired signals and/or radiation. A neutron reactive medium integrated with the entrance window functions as a neutron conversion layer that transform one or more neutron strikes against the reactive media to carrier signals that represents a neutron incidence. Semiconductor junctions absorb the carrier signals creating electron-hole pairs that have drift rates in a sub-nanosecond charge transit range and render pulses in response to each neutron detection. Neutron reactive layers serve as a cathode in a two parallel plates avalanche chamber design. The charged particles are converted into primary electrons through a gas medium and amplified by an internal gas multiplication effect for the registration of individual neutrons. A neutron registration circuit amplifies and conditions the pulses to record intensity measurements and localization measurements.