Ultra Low Noise Epitaxial 4H-SiC X-Ray Detectors

Bertuccio, GiuseppePolitecnico di Milano, Como Campus, Italy,Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science (författare)

The design and the experimental results of some prototypes of SiC X-ray detectors are presented. The devices have been manufactured on top of 2 inch 4H-SiC wafer with 115 μm thick undoped high purity epitaxial layer, which constitutes the detection’s active volume. Pad and pixel detectors based on Ni-Schottky junctions have been tested. The residual doping of the epi-layer was found tobe extremely low, 3.7 x 1013 cm-3, allowing to achieve the highest detection efficiency and the lower specific capacitance of the detectors. At 22 °C and in operating bias condition, the reverse current densities of the detector’s Schottky junctions have been measured to be between J = 0.3 pA/cm2 and J = 4 pA/cm2; these values are more than two orders of magnitude lower than those of state of the art silicon detectors. With such low leakage currents, the equivalent electronic noise of SiC pixel detectors is as low as 0.5 electrons r.m.s at room temperature, which represents a new state of the art in the scenario of semiconductor radiation detectors.

Caccia, StefanoPolitecnico di Milano, Como Campus, Italy,Department of Electronic Engineering and Information Science (författare)
Nava, FilippoModena and Reggio Emilia University, Italy,Department of Physics (författare)
Foti, GaetanoUniversity of Catania, Italy,Department of Physics (författare)
Puglisi, DonatellaUniversity of Catania, Italy,Department of Physics and National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN)(Swepub:liu)donpu97 (författare)
Lanzieri, ClaudioSELEX Sistemi Integrati, Rome, Italy (författare)
Lavanga, S.SELEX Sistemi Integrati, Rome, Italy (författare)
Abbondanza, G.E.T.C. Epitaxial Technology Center, Catania, Italy (författare)
Crippa, D.LPE S.p.A., Baranzate (MI), Italy (författare)
Preti, F.LPE S.p.A., Baranzate (MI), Italy (författare)
Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus, ItalyDepartment of Electronic Engineering and Information Science (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:Materials Science Forum: Trans Tech Publications Inc.615-617, s. 845-8480255-54761662-9752

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