Development of large-area quadrant silicon detector for charged particles

作者:Bao Peng Fei*; Lin Cheng Jian; Yang Feng; Guo Zhao Qiao; Guo Tian Shu; Yang Lei; Sun Li Jie; Jia Hui Ming; Xu Xin Xing; Ma Nan Ru; Zhang Huan Qiao; Liu Zu Hua
来源:Chinese Physics C, 2014, 38(12): 126001.
DOI:10.1088/1674-1137/38/12/126001

摘要

The quadrant silicon detector, a kind of passivated implanted planar silicon detector with quadrant structure on the junction side, gained its wide application in charged particle detection. In this paper, the manufacturing procedure, performance test and results of the quadrant silicon detector developed recently at the China Institute of Atomic Energy are presented. The detector is about 300 mu m thick with a 48 mm x48 mm active area. The leakage current under the full depletion bias voltage of -16 V is about 2.5 nA, and the rise time is better than 160 ns. The energy resolution for a 5.157 MeV alpha-particle is around the level of 1%. Charge sharing effects between the neighboring quads, leading to complicated correlations between two quads, were observed when alpha particles illuminated on the junction side. It is explained as a result of distortion of the electric field of the inter-quad region. Such an event is only about 0.6% of all events and can be neglected in an actual application.