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Mikael Elfman

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Radiation tolerance of ultra-thin PIN silicon detectors evaluated with a MeV proton microbeam

Author

  • Naseem Salim
  • Jan Pallon
  • Mikael Elfman
  • Per Kristiansson
  • Charlotta Nilsson
  • Linus Ros

Summary, in English

A focused MeV proton beam at the Lund Ion Beam Analysis Facility has been used to induce radiation damage in transmission semiconductor detectors. The damage alters the response of detectors and degrades their charge transport properties. In this work, the radiation tolerance of ultra-thin silicon PIN detectors was studied as a function of proton fluences and detector thickness using a scanning proton microprobe. The investigated detectors had thicknesses ranging between 6.5 and 22 mu m, and different selected regions of each detector were irradiated with fluence up to 2 x 10(15) protons/cm(2). The results show that the charge collection efficiency (CCE) decreases as a function of the proton fluence. Compared with non-irradiated regions, the CCE was above 94% at the lowest fluence of 2 x 10(12) protons/cm(2) for all the detectors studied. Degradation of the devices caused spectral peak shifting toward lower energies. The highest possible fluence of 2.55 MeV protons that could be used, causing only minor radiation damage, was 2 x 10(13) cm(-2) for the thinnest detectors (6.5 and 10 mu m) and 2 x 10(12) cm(-2) for the thickest detectors (15 and 22 mu m).

Department/s

  • Nuclear physics

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

17-21

Publication/Series

Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volume

356

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics

Keywords

  • Ultra-thin detectors
  • Silicon detectors
  • Radiation damage
  • Charge
  • collection efficiency
  • Microbeam facility

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0168-583X