The present understanding of the charge collection in GaAs detectors with
respect to the materials used and its processing are discussed. The radiation
induced degradation of the charge collection efficiency and the leakage current
of the detectors are summarised. The status of strip and pixel detectors for
the ATLAS experiment are reported along with the latest results from GaAs X-ray
detectors for non-high energy physics applications.Comment: 7 pages. 4 postscript figures + 1 postscript preprint logo + 1 LaTeX
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