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Rhombic Corporation - Neutron Detector to Be
Developed
VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 1999--
Rhombic 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 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 to the purchasers of the Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) 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.
Contact:
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901 - 1212 Howe Street
Vancouver, BC Canada V6Z 2M9
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