Electrets for Passive Radon Daughter Dosimetry
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Atika Khan; Colin R. Phillips
- Source
- Health Physics. 46:141-149
- Subject
- Aerosols
Materials science
Dosimeter
Epidemiology
business.industry
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
chemistry.chemical_element
Humidity
Radon
Alpha Particles
Electricity
chemistry
Optoelectronics
Dosimetry
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Electret
Radiometry
business
Nuclear medicine
Filtration
Aluminum
- Language
- ISSN
- 0017-9078
Electrets are demonstrated to collect radon-daughter aerosols with efficiencies which are similar to the efficiencies of aluminum discs held at a potential equal to the surface potential of the electrets. The properties of the electrets are suitable for incorporation of an electret into a radon-daughter dosimeter as the passive collecting element.