Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
1997-04-04
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
35 pages, Postscript submitted to Nucl. Inst. and Meth. A
Scientific paper
The radiation damage in 200 um thick Schottky diodes made on semi-insulating (SI) undoped GaAs Liquid Encapsulated Czochralski (LEC) bulk material with resistivities between 0.4 and 8.9*10E7 Ohm*cm were studied using alpha-spectroscopy, signal response to minimum ionising particles (MIP), I-V and CV-measurements. The results have been analysed to investigate the influence of the substrate resistivity on the detector performance after neutron and proton irradiation. The leakage current density, signal response to alpha-particles and MIPs show a strong dependence on the resistivity before and after irradiation. An observed decrease of the electron mean free drift length before and after irradiation with increasing substrate resistivity can be explained by a model involving the different ionisation ratios of defects, which are introduced by the irradiation. Comparison of the radiation damage due to neutrons and protons gives a hardness factor of 7+-0.9 for 24 GeV/c protons. The best detectors show a response to MIPs of 5250 e- at 200 V reverse bias after a irradiation level of 2*10E14 p/cm^2.
Eich Th.
Evans Nick
Geppert R.
Goeppert R.
Irsigler R.
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