30 June 2016 to 1 July 2016
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Fastissimo ..or the ultimate design for ultra-high speed radiation sensors

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10m
Auditorium & Conference Room (Other Institutes)

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ESADE Business School, Avenida Pedralbes, 60-62, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.

Speaker

Cinzia Da Via (University of Manchester (GB))

Description

We propose to develop silicon sensors with excellent time (~10 ps) and position (~25 um) resolutions. This can be achieved by taking advantage of the fast response properties of MEMS based 3-Dimensional (3D) sensors with trench-electrodes processed throughout the silicon bulk rather than on the wafer’s surface and a modified read-out electronics based on fast current amplifiers.
3D sensors are particularly favoured for timing applications due to their electrodes configuration, which allows strong and homogeneous electric fields, inter distance as close as 50 microns and large signals. The particle arrival time can be measured by using the rise time of the induced current signal with reduced fluctuations due to the fact that in 3D sensors all charges along the ionization track, including those from delta rays, are generated within similar, and at the same time shorter, distance from the collecting electrode. This is to be compared with planar sensors where each charge carrier from an impinging minimum ionising particle is generated at a different distance from the collecting electrode, inducing peak signals at different times.
So far the fast response characteristics of 3D sensors have not been fully exploited, because of both non-optimized sensor design and technology, and limits coming from the read-out electronics. However, a time resolution ranging from~30 ps to ~180 ps, depending on the signal amplitude, was already obtained[1] giving hope to further improvements with a dedicated design of both sensor (in 1 year) and electronics (longer time).
Preliminary TCAD simulations also show that electric field values high enough for carrier velocity saturation can be obtained in most of the sensitive volume by adopting an hexagonal 3D cell, with current signal rise times of ~10 ps, regardless of the particle impact position.
It should also be stressed that the proposed sensors also maintain all earlier features of 3D sensors such as extreme radiation hardness and sensitivity to the last few microns of the sensors's volume by the use of active edges.

[1] S. Parker et al., “Increased speed: 3D silicon sensors; fast current amplifiers”, IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-58, 2, 404-417 (2011)

Authors

Cinzia Da Via (University of Manchester (GB)) Gian-Franco Dalla Betta (INFN and University of Trento)

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