Scientific article
OA Policy
English

Radiation tolerance of SiGe BiCMOS monolithic silicon pixel detectors without internal gain layer

Published inJournal of instrumentation, vol. 19, no. 01, p. 01014
Publication date2024
First online date2024-01-15
Abstract

A monolithic silicon pixel prototype produced for theMONOLITH ERC Advanced project was irradiated with 70 MeV protons upto a fluence of 1 × 10$^{16}$1 MeV n$_{eq}$/cm$^{2}$. The ASIC contains a matrix ofhexagonal pixels with 100 μm pitch, readout by low-noise andvery fast SiGe HBT frontend electronics. Wafers with 50 μmthick epilayer with a resistivity of 350 Ωcm were used toproduce a fully depleted sensor. Laboratory tests conducted with a$^{90}$Sr source show that the detector works satisfactorily afterirradiation. The signal-to-noise ratio is not seen to change up tofluence of 6 × 10$^{14}$n$_{eq}$/cm$^{2}$. The signaltime jitter was estimated as the ratio between the voltage noise andthe signal slope at threshold. At -35°C, sensor bias voltageof 200 V and frontend power consumption of 0.9 W/cm$^{2}$, the timejitter of the most-probable signal amplitude was estimated to be σ$_{t}$$^{90}$Sr = 21 ps for proton fluence up to6 × 10$^{14}$n$_{eq}$/cm$^{2}$ and 57 ps at1 × 10$^{16}$n$_{eq}$/cm$^{2}$. Increasing the sensorbias to 250 V and the analog voltage of the preamplifier from 1.8to 2.0 V provides a time jitter of 40 ps at1 × 10$^{16}$n$_{eq}$/cm$^{2}$.

Keywords
  • Particle tracking detectors (Solid-state detectors)
  • Pixelated detectors and associated VLSI electronics
  • Timing detectors
  • Instrumentation and methods for time-of-flight (TOF) spectroscopy
Research groups
Citation (ISO format)
MILANESIO, Matteo et al. Radiation tolerance of SiGe BiCMOS monolithic silicon pixel detectors without internal gain layer. In: Journal of instrumentation, 2024, vol. 19, n° 01, p. 01014. doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/19/01/p01014
Main files (1)
Article (Published version)
Identifiers
Journal ISSN1748-0221
36views
56downloads

Technical informations

Creation04/07/2025 09:50:48
First validation12/11/2025 15:38:31
Update12/11/2025 15:38:31
Status update12/11/2025 15:38:31
Last indexation21/07/2026 07:55:33
All rights reserved by Archive ouverte UNIGE and the University of GenevaunigeBlack