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Because this monograph attempts to reach a diversity of readers, from electrical/electronic engineers, to solid-state scientists, to nuclear physicists, it is at once a problem of how much to discuss in this chapter regarding preliminary aspects. The subject matter has a rather wide scope as well, drawing from the disciplines of electronics, solid state (condensed matter) and nuclear physics. Aspects of the appropriate physics concepts not usually familiar to engineers, as well as those familiar to engineers but not to physicists, was decided as the approach for this short chapter.
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Messenger, G.C., Ash, M.S. (1997). Preliminaries. In: Single Event Phenomena. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6043-2_1
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