2–6 Dec 2024
CERN
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Characterisation of Diamond and SiC sensors with TPA and modelling of response

5 Dec 2024, 11:30
20m
4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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WG6 - Wide bandgap materials WG6 - WBG sensors

Speaker

Huazhen Li (The University of Manchester (GB))

Description

Two Photon Absorption (TPA) effect is a second order non-linear optical effect in semiconductor material, which refers to the phenomenon that when a femto-second laser is focused inside the device, electrons in valance band could absorb two photons simultaneously and create a point-like activation region around laser focus. Electron-hole pairs generated in the activation region can be used to test the field inside the device. This technique features precisely controllable testing position and high temporal resolution. In this work, we applied TPA testing on a planar diamond sample and a 4H-SiC sample (cooperating with HEPHY), and the performance of the detectors are examined. With Sentaurus TCAD, electric fields in the samples are simulated, the drifting and diffusion of carriers generated by TPA effect and signal response are then modelled with Monte Carlo method using Garfield++, which is compared with the experimental TPA results.

Type of presentation (in-person/online) in-person presentation
Type of presentation (I. scientific results or II. project proposal) I. Presentation on scientific results

Authors

Huazhen Li (The University of Manchester (GB)) Alexander Oh (The University of Manchester (GB))

Co-authors

Prof. Marco Gersabeck (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE)) Oscar Augusto De Aguiar Francisco (The University of Manchester (GB)) Dr Patrick Parkinson (The University of Manchester) Dr Olivier Allegre (The University of Manchester) Patrick Salter (University of Oxford) Dr Charles Smith (The University of Manchester) Dr Nawal Al-Amairi (The University of Manchester)

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