The Effects of High-Energy Carbon Co-Doping on IMB-CNM LGAD Fabrication and Performance

Over the past few years, Low-Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) have demonstrated excellent timing performance, showing great potential for use in 4D tracking of high-energy charged particles. Carbon co-doping is a key factor for enhancing LGAD performance, which are detectors with intrinsic amplifica...

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Autores: Villegas, Jairo, Dougados, Florent, Torres Muñoz, Carmen, Fernandez-Martinez, Pablo, Jiménez Ramos, María del Carmen, Hidalgo, Salvador
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/176954
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/176954
https://doi.org/10.3390/s25175571
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:LGAD
X-rays and charged-particle detectors
alpha spectrometry
dopant diffusion in silicon
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Sumario:Over the past few years, Low-Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGADs) have demonstrated excellent timing performance, showing great potential for use in 4D tracking of high-energy charged particles. Carbon co-doping is a key factor for enhancing LGAD performance, which are detectors with intrinsic amplification, in harsh radiation environments. This work presents a broad pre-irradiation characterization of the latest carbon-co-implanted (or carbonated) LGADs fabricated at IMB-CNM. The results indicate that the addition of carbon reduces the nominal gain of the devices compared with non-carbonated detectors. Furthermore, a comprehensive study is presented on how carbon co-implantation can either enhance or suppress the diffusion of the multiplication layer during LGAD fabrication, depending on the device structure and fabrication parameters.