We have studied the effect of plasma treatment on the rectification property and performance of the CdTe radiation detector with the Al Schottky electrode. The Te-rich layer on the CdTe surface etched with Br-methanol caused the degradation of the rectification property of the Al/CdTe Schottky contact. To remove the Te-rich layer, plasma treatment was carried out. The plasma treatment did not roughen the CdTe surface, and it removed the Te-rich layer. In terms of current–voltage characteristics of the Al/CdTe Schottky contact, the leakage current of the samples with plasma treatment was lower than that of the samples without plasma treatment. Moreover, in terms of detector performance, the samples with plasma treatment showed a higher energy resolution than those without plasma treatment. We achieved a high energy resolution of 1.6 keV FWHM at 59.5 keV using the plasma-treated Al/CdTe/Pt detector, which is comparable to the value obtained using a conventional Schottky-type In/CdTe/Pt detector.

We recently derived, using diagrammatic methods, the leading-order hard photon emission rate in ultra-relativistic plasmas. This requires a correct treatment of multiple scattering effects which limit the coherence length of emitted radiation (the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal effect). In this paper, we provide a more physical derivation of this result, and extend the treatment to the case of gluon radiation.