Atomic and nuclear properties of cadmium telluride (CdTe)
QuantityValueUnits ValueUnits
<Z/A> 0.41665     
Specific gravity 6.200 g cm-3   
Mean excitation energy 539.3 eV   
Minimum ionization 1.243 MeV g-1cm2 7.704 MeV cm-1
Nuclear collision length 98.6 g cm-2 15.90 cm
Nuclear interaction length 167.3 g cm-2 26.99 cm
Pion collision length 122.8 g cm-2 19.81 cm
Pion interaction length 194.9 g cm-2 31.44 cm
Radiation length 8.91 g cm-2 1.436 cm
Critical energy 11.84 MeV (for e-) 11.44 MeV (for e+)
Molière radius 15.95 g cm-2 2.572 cm
Plasma energy ℏωp 46.31 eV   
Muon critical energy 208. GeV   
Composition:
Elem ZAtomic frac* Mass frac
Cd
 48
1.00
0.468355
Te
 52
1.00
0.531645
* calculated from mass fraction data

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