List of Authors:

Maria Rita Coluccia,J. A. Appel, G. Chiodini, D. C. Christian, S. W. Kwan, G. Sellberg with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

L. Upleggerwith INFN Milano (Italy)

We present IV and CV curves for irradiated prototype n+/n/p+ silicon pixel sensors, intended for use in the BTeV experiment at Fermilab. We tested pixel sensors from different vendors and with two pixel isolation techniques: p-stop and p-spray. Results are based on exposure with 200 MeV protons up to 6 x 1014 protons/cm2.

ABSTRACT

• BTeV [1] is a new heavy quark experiment that will run at the TEVATRON collider at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

• It is designed to cover the “forward” region of the proton-antiproton interaction point running at a luminosity of 2 x 1032 cm-2s-1.

• The experiment will employ a silicon pixel vertex detector to provide high precision space points for an on-line lowest-level trigger based on track impact parameters [2].

ONE STATION

THE VERTEX DETECTOR

The baseline BTeV silicon pixel detector has rectangular 50 μm x 400 μm pixel elements and consists of a regular array of 30 “stations” of “planar” pixel detectors distributed along the interaction region.

L-SHAPE HALF PLANE

Each station contains one plane with the narrow pixel dimension vertical, and one with the narrow dimension horizontal, and is split in order to allow the sensors to be moved away from the beam during acceleration and other unstable beam conditions.

HYBRID ASSEMBLY

The basic building block of the detector is a hybrid assembly consisting of a sensor, a number of readout chips and a flexible printed circuit (a high-density interconnect: HDI).

SENSOR DESIGNThe BTeV pixel sensors have n+/n/p+ configuration and therefore it is necessary to provide explicit electrical isolation between neighboring n+ electrodes. We explore two techniques.

P-STOP isolation technique [3] in which a high dose p-implant surrounds each n+-type region.

P-STOP ISOLATION TECHNIQUE

P-SPRAY ISOLATION TECHNIQUE

P-SPRAY isolation technique [4], developed by the ATLAS collaboration, that consists of a medium dose p-implant that is applied to the entire n-side and is overcompensated by the high dose n+ pixel implants. To increase radiation hardness and the breakdown voltage before irradiation, a “grading” of p-spray implantation (moderated p-spray) [5] is used, that leads to a step in the effective p-spray dose along the gap between two n+-implants.

DEVICES TESTEDP-STOP sensors

• From SINTEF (Norway). • Low resistivity (1.0-1.5 KΩcm) <100> silicon, 270μm thick.• Two arrays tested:

1. test-sized sensors 12 x 92 cells that, except for four, are all connected together.

2. FPIX1-sized sensors 18 x 160 cells (same size as the readout chip FPIX1 [6], no bias grid structure).

P-SPRAY sensors• From TESLA (Czech Republic) and CiS (Germany).• High resistivity (2-5 KΩ cm) <111> silicon, 250 μm thick.• One array tested (FPIX1-sized sensors).• Bias grid structure for biasing all the pixel simultaneously.

P-STOP SENSOR PERFORMANCESI-V CURVES BEFORE IRRADIATION

Fig. 1 Typical I-V curves for both devices before irradiation. The test-sized sensors show very good performance. The FPIX1-sized sensors have lower breakdown voltage. This appears to be related to the fact that it is difficult to bias all of the pixel cells during wafer testing.

Fig. 2 The breakdown voltage of the FPIX1-sized sensors increases

considerably after bump bonding to a readout chip. We tested 5 sensors that were bump bonded to a readout chip and 3 sensors, with indium bumps deposited on the n+ side, that were glued with conductive silver epoxy to a piece of silicon in order to mimic the presence of the readout chip.

I-V CURVES BEFORE IRRADIATION

I-V CURVES AFTER IRRADIATION

Fig. 3 I-V curves for a test-sized p-stop sensor irradiated up to 1.5 E14 p/cm-2 The current after irradiation increases by a few orders of magnitude. However, operating at lower temperature can alleviate this problem.

Leakage Current: Temperature Dependence

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predicted dependence of the leakage current vs temperature. There is good agreement between the fit and the data.

C-V CURVES AND DEPLETION VOLTAGE

Fig. 5 Depletion voltage as a function of proton fluence. Note that for 1 year of BTeV running at nominal luminosity the fluence will be 1 x 1014 p/ cm2

C-V CURVES AND DEPLETION VOLTAGE

Fig. 6 Here a typical example of bulk capacitance versus bias potential for a

test-sized p-stop irradiated up to 1.2 x 1014 p/cm2 . We use this method to determine the depletion voltage.

P-SPRAY SENSORS PERFORMANCEI-V CURVES BEFORE AND AFTER IRRADIATION

Fig. 7 We irradiated two of these sensors, one up to 8 1013 p/cm2 and the other one up to 1.2 1014 p/cm2. The figure shows the increase in the leakage current due to the irradiation for the most irradiated sensor.

C-V CURVE AFTER IRRADIATION

Fig. 8 CV measurement for sensor irradiate to 1.2 1014 p/cm2 . Vdep ~70 V.

Before irradiation was Vdep ~60 V . Type inversion already occurred.

CONCLUSIONS Two different pixel isolation techniques were studied:• P-stop isolation:

1. Most of the tested sensors meet specifications.2. Problem to measure the breakdown voltage before

bump bonding to readout chip.• P-spray isolation:

1. Results obtained are promising. 2. It is possible to determine the breakdown voltage due

to a bias grid. 3. Need more irradiation studies.

We will study the performance of these sensors, bump bonded We will study the performance of these sensors, bump bonded to a readout chip, in a test beam.to a readout chip, in a test beam.

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