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To: Rose Rose who wrote (2694)	5/14/1998 10:55:00 PM
From: Joe Copia	Respond to of 25711

Tom, we have to remember that the entire issue revolves around the fact that electrons behave just like light; the quantum behavior of atomic objects is the same for all. Yes. Yes. Yes. But some posters do seem to have misfiring synapses. Joe PTG&LI !!!

To: Rose Rose who wrote (2694)	5/14/1998 10:57:00 PM
From: RavenCrazy	Respond to of 25711

To Rose regarding NUKE -- The diamond doping is a minor issue. What you want to consider in looking at NUKE's triage of ambitions is whether you want to be buried in a coffin that might leak radiation for miles despite three-foot thick walls around it and then further consider how many elephants it would take to haul such a coffin to a cemetery. L.

To: Rose Rose who wrote (2694)	5/14/1998 11:00:00 PM
From: Tom Swift	Respond to of 25711

OK, I was confused by the connection between lithium drifting and neutron beams. Lithium drifting is a very old technique for producing flat compensated silicon and germanium for X-ray detectors. You paint the diode with a Li-salt and immerse it in hot oil under bias for months. What you get is a thick detector that has a very high resistivity that you can then get a wide depletion region in when you bias the detector. I don't know a lot about neutron beams except that if you expose Be to alphas you get a lot of neutrons and can produce a beam by absorbing everything that is not going in the right direction. I have not seen any other (small) ways of generating neutrons. I guess what you are referring to is that you can't accelerate or direct neutrons since they are neutral. Hmm, I'm still confused. I work with electrons & photons all the time & I don't pretend to understand them. I just know that the math does work out.