CN212257400U - Silicon pixel detector based on floating electrode - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a silicon pixel detector based on floating electrode, silicon pixel detector includes cuboid form silicon substrate, is equipped with the collection negative pole in the middle of the silicon substrate top surface, and the silicon substrate top surface outside the collection negative pole is equipped with first floating electrode ring and second floating electrode ring, and the collection negative pole top surface is equipped with aluminium metal, and the silicon substrate top surface outside the collection negative pole, first floating electrode ring top surface and second floating electrode ring top surface all are equipped with the silica layer, and silicon substrate bottom surface is equipped with anode layer and aluminium metal in proper order; the silicon pixel detector has the advantages of uniform potential distribution inside the silicon pixel detector, small dead zone area, high charge collection efficiency and detection efficiency, small surface area of the collection cathode, reduced input capacitance and noise and high resolution.
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Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of photoelectric detector, a silicon pixel detector based on floating electrode is related to.
Background
At present, the semiconductor detector is mainly used in the technical fields of high-energy nuclear physics, aerospace, military, medicine, pulsar navigation and the like, the unit volume of the traditional silicon pixel detector is large, the effective electrode area is consistent with the upper surface area of the pixel unit, the effective electrode area can correspondingly increase the input capacitance of the detection unit, the effective series noise of the detection unit is further increased, the signal-to-noise ratio is reduced, the energy resolution of the silicon pixel detector is reduced, meanwhile, the traditional silicon pixel detector with the large detection unit volume is not easy to be designed into an array, the position resolution is low, and the response time is long.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
In order to achieve the above object, the utility model provides a silicon pixel detector based on floating electrode, the utility model discloses a collection cathode area is less, and leakage current, electric capacity are lower, and the signal to noise ratio is higher, and charge collection efficiency, energy resolution and position resolution improve, and response time shortens.
The utility model adopts the technical scheme that a silicon pixel detector based on a floating electrode comprises a cuboid silicon substrate, a square collecting cathode is arranged in the middle of the top surface of the silicon substrate, a first floating electrode ring and a second floating electrode ring are arranged on the top surface of the silicon substrate around the collecting cathode, the centers of the collecting cathode, the first floating electrode ring and the second floating electrode ring are the same, the top surface of the collecting cathode is provided with metal aluminum, the top surfaces of the silicon substrate around the metal aluminum, the first floating electrode ring and the second floating electrode ring are all provided with a silicon dioxide layer, and the bottom surface of the silicon substrate is sequentially provided with an anode layer and metal aluminum;
the widths of the first floating electrode ring and the second floating electrode ring are the same, and the distances between the collecting cathode and the first floating electrode ring and between the first floating electrode ring and the second floating electrode ring are the same.
Furthermore, the length, the width and the height of the silicon substrate are 80 micrometers, 80 micrometers and 300 micrometers, the side length of the top surface of the collecting cathode is 15 micrometers, the widths of the first floating electrode ring and the second floating electrode ring are both 10 micrometers, and the distance between the collecting cathode and the first floating electrode ring and the distance between the first floating electrode ring and the second floating electrode ring are both 5 micrometers.
Furthermore, the thicknesses of the collecting cathode, the first floating electrode ring, the second floating electrode ring and the anode layer are all 1 μm, and the thicknesses of the metal aluminum layer and the silicon dioxide layer are all 1 μm.
Furthermore, the silicon substrate is N-type ultra-pure high-resistance silicon, the collecting cathode, the first floating electrode ring and the second floating electrode ring are all made of P-type heavily doped materials, and the anode layer is made of N-type heavily doped materials.
Further, the doping concentration of the silicon substrate is 2 multiplied by 1011/cm3The doping concentrations of the collecting cathode, the first floating electrode ring, the second floating electrode ring and the anode layer are all 1 multiplied by 1019/cm3。
The design method of the silicon pixel detector based on the floating electrode specifically comprises the following steps:
s1, determining the full depletion voltage of the silicon pixel detector unit according to the size and the doping concentration of the silicon substrate;
potential at any point within a silicon pixel detector
The poisson equation with the space charge amount q at this point is shown in formula (1):
in the formula (1), z is the distance from a certain point to the bottom surface of the silicon substrate (5), z is more than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to d, r is the distance from a certain point in the horizontal plane to the center of the cross section of the silicon substrate, and N iseffIs the effective doping concentration of the silicon matrix,0for a vacuum dielectric constant, for a dielectric constant of silicon, the solution of the Poisson equation is
VfdIs the full depletion voltage, V, of a silicon pixel detectorfd＝qNDd2/20，NDIs the doping concentration of the silicon matrix, d is the thickness of the silicon matrix, psi (r) is the potential at the back of the silicon pixel detector,
Φ (r) is the potential of the front face of the silicon pixel detector,
s2, determining the size of the collecting cathode;
effective series noise ENC for silicon pixel detectorsseriesAnd its input capacitance ctIs shown in formula (2):
e in formula (2)nIs the energy of a wave with wave number n, h' (t) is the impulse response, tpeakFor the peak response time of the input signal, it can be known from equation (2) that the input capacitance should be minimized to reduce the effective series noise, and the input capacitance has the following relationship with the surface area of the collecting cathode:
therefore, in order to reduce the effective series noise of the silicon pixel detector unit, the side length of the top surface of the collecting cathode is 15 mu m;
s3, determining the distance between the collecting cathode and the first floating electrode ring, and the width of the first floating electrode ring;
and setting the distance between the collecting cathode and the first floating electrode ring as G, setting the width of the first floating electrode ring as W, setting the distance between the collecting cathode and the first floating electrode ring as well as the distance between the first floating electrode ring and the second floating electrode ring as W to be 2G, and determining the distance between the collecting cathode and the first floating electrode ring and the width of the first floating electrode ring according to the side length of the top surface of the silicon substrate and the side length of the top surface of the collecting cathode.
The utility model has the advantages that: 1. the utility model arranges the first floating electrode ring and the second floating electrode ring on the top of the silicon substrate around the collecting cathode, so that the potential inside the detector unit is uniformly distributed, the dead zone area is smaller, and the charge collecting efficiency and the detection efficiency are improved; 2. the utility model has smaller collecting cathode area, thus reducing the capacitance and noise of the detector unit and improving the resolution of the silicon pixel detector; 3. because the utility model discloses the structure is small, easily integrated formation array, and after heavy ion or X ray incident, the drift distance of electron-hole pair is little, easily collects, reads out, has higher energy resolution and position resolution.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.
Fig. 1 is an overall structure diagram of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a potential distribution diagram of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is a graph of the relationship between voltage and capacitance of the present invention.
In the figure, 1, a collecting cathode, 2, a first floating electrode ring, 3, a second floating electrode ring, 4, a silicon dioxide layer, 5, a silicon substrate, 6, an anode layer, 7, metal aluminum.
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The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative work belong to the protection scope of the present invention.
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As shown in fig. 1 and 2, the floating electrode based silicon pixel detector comprises a rectangular silicon substrate 5, a collecting cathode 1 with a square top surface is arranged in the middle of the top surface of the silicon substrate 5, a first floating electrode ring 2 and a second floating electrode ring 3 are arranged on the top surface of the silicon substrate 5 around the collecting cathode 1, the centers of the collecting cathode 1, the first floating electrode ring 2 and the second floating electrode ring 3 are the same, the widths of the first floating electrode ring 2 and the second floating electrode ring 3 are the same, the distances between the collecting cathode 1 and the first floating electrode ring 2 and between the first floating electrode ring 2 and the second floating electrode ring 3 are the same, as shown in fig. 3, the top of the collecting cathode 1 is provided with aluminum metal 7, the top surface of the silicon substrate 5 around the aluminum metal 7, the top surface of the first floating electrode ring 2 and the top surface of the second floating electrode ring 3 are provided with silicon dioxide layers 4, and the bottom surface of the silicon substrate 5 is provided with an anode layer 6 and aluminum metal 7 in sequence.
The silicon substrate 5 is N-type ultra-pure high-resistance silicon, the depletion voltage of the detector unit is increased due to the increase of the doping concentration of the silicon substrate 5, the detector unit is difficult to deplete, the internal potential distribution is uneven, the charge collection efficiency is low, and the concentration of the silicon substrate 5 is 2 multiplied by 1011/cm3Reasonable depletion voltage can be obtained, the potential inside the silicon pixel detector is uniformly distributed, and the charge collection efficiency is high; the collecting cathode 1, the first floating electrode ring 2 and the second floating electrode ring 3 are all P-type heavy doping, the anode layer 6 is N-type heavy doping, and the doping concentrations of the collecting cathode 1, the first floating electrode ring 2, the second floating electrode ring 3 and the anode layer 6 are all 1 x 1019/cm3。
The length multiplied by the width multiplied by the height of the silicon substrate 5 is 80 mu m multiplied by 300 mu m, the silicon substrate 5 is difficult to be exhausted due to the increase of the size of the silicon substrate 5, the drift time of electron-hole pairs with the same drift speed is prolonged, the response time of the silicon pixel detector is prolonged, the probability that the electron-hole pairs are captured by internal defects is increased, the charge collection efficiency of the silicon pixel detector is reduced, and the silicon pixel detector is easy to break down due to the reduction of the size of the silicon substrate 5; the side length of the top surface of the collecting cathode 1 is 15 micrometers, the difficulty of collecting charges and the process difficulty of the collecting cathode 1 are increased when the area of the collecting cathode 1 is too small, the input capacitance of the silicon pixel detector is improved when the area of the collecting cathode 1 is increased, the effective series noise is increased, and the resolution of the silicon pixel detector is influenced.
The widths of the first floating electrode ring 2 and the second floating electrode ring 3 are both 10 μm, the distance between the collecting cathode 1 and the first floating electrode ring 2 and the distance between the first floating electrode ring 2 and the second floating electrode ring 3 are both 5 μm, if the widths of the first floating electrode ring 2 and the second floating electrode ring 3 are not consistent, the distance between the collecting cathode 1 and the first floating electrode ring 2 and the distance between the first floating electrode ring 2 and the second floating electrode ring 3 are not consistent, so that the distances of equipotential lines inside the silicon pixel detector unit are inconsistent, the potential distribution is not uniform, and the charge collecting efficiency of the silicon pixel detector unit is poor.
The thicknesses of the collecting cathode 1, the first floating electrode ring 2, the second floating electrode ring 3 and the anode layer 6 are all 1 μm, and the thicknesses of the metal aluminum 7 and the silicon dioxide layer 4 are all 1 μm.
Two circles of floating electrode rings are additionally arranged on the outer side of a collecting cathode 1 of the silicon pixel detector unit, and the floating electrode rings form two equipotential rings under the action of an external voltage, so that the internal electric potential of the silicon pixel detector unit is uniformly distributed, the dead zone area is smaller, and the charge collecting efficiency and the detection efficiency are improved.
The design method of the full depletion voltage of the silicon pixel detector based on the floating electrode comprises the following steps:
s1, determining the full depletion voltage of the silicon pixel detector according to the size and the doping concentration of the silicon substrate 5,
potential at any point within a silicon pixel detector
The poisson equation with the space charge amount q at this point is shown in formula (1):
in the formula (1), z is the distance from a certain point to the bottom surface of the silicon substrate (5), z is more than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to d, r is the distance from a certain point in the horizontal plane to the center of the cross section of the silicon substrate (5), and N iseffIs the effective doping concentration of the silicon matrix 5,0for a vacuum dielectric constant, for a dielectric constant of silicon, the solution of the Poisson equation is
VfdIs the full depletion voltage, V, of a silicon pixel detectorfd＝qNDd2/20，NDIs the doping concentration of the silicon substrate 5, d is the thickness of the silicon substrate 5, psi (r) is the potential at the back of the silicon pixel detector,
Φ (r) is the potential of the front face of the silicon pixel detector,
the dimensions of the silicon substrate 5 were set to 80 μm × 80 μm × 300 μm with the silicon substrate 5 having a doping concentration of 2 × 1011/cm3The available depletion voltage is 13.6V;
s2, determining the basic structure parameters of the silicon pixel detector and the effective series noise ENC of the silicon pixel detectorseriesAnd its input capacitance ctIs calculated as shown in equation (2):
e in formula (2)nIs the energy of a wave with wave number n, h' (t) is the impulse response, tpeakIs the input signal peak response time;
the effective series noise ENC of the silicon pixel detector can be known from the formula (2)seriesAnd an input capacitance ctIs proportional to the square of the capacitance, in order to reduce the effective series noise of the silicon pixel detector and improve the energy resolution of the silicon pixel detector, the input capacitance should be reduced as much as possible, and the input capacitance and the surface area a of the collecting cathode 1 have the following relationship:
the surface area of the collecting cathode 1 should be minimized, but too small surface area of the collecting cathode 1 is difficult to be realized in the process, and difficulty in collecting charges of the collecting cathode 1 is increased, soTaking the side length of the top surface of the collecting cathode 1 as 15 mu m;
s3, determining the widths of the first floating electrode ring 2 and the second floating electrode ring 3, the distance between the collecting cathode 1 and the first floating electrode ring 2 and the distance between the first floating electrode ring 2 and the second floating electrode ring 3 according to the side length of the top surface of the silicon substrate 5 and the side length of the top surface of the collecting cathode 1;
in order to ensure that the intervals of equipotential lines inside the silicon pixel detector unit are consistent and the potential distribution is uniform, the widths of the first floating electrode ring 2 and the second floating electrode ring 3 are the same, the interval between the collecting cathode 1 and the first floating electrode ring 2 and the interval between the first floating electrode ring 2 and the second floating electrode ring 3 are the same, the width of the first floating electrode ring 2 is set to be W, the interval between the collecting cathode 1 and the first floating electrode ring 2 is set to be G, as can be seen from fig. 3, 80 μm is 15 μm +4W +5G, G is 2W, the interval between the collecting cathode and the first floating electrode ring 2 and the interval between the first floating electrode ring 3 and the second floating electrode ring 3 are both 10 μm, and the widths of the first floating electrode ring 2 and the second floating electrode ring 3 are both 5 μm.
The utility model discloses silicon pixel detector during operation adds 13.6V voltage on anode layer 6, collect and add 0V voltage on the negative pole 1, silicon pixel detector unit is in the state of exhausting completely under the external reverse bias, can produce electron-hole pair after the incident particle gets into silicon pixel detector unit, it drifts to anode layer 6 and collection negative pole 1 respectively under the effect of the inside electric field of silicon pixel detector unit, finally caught by the electrode and collect and produce pulse signal, read out pulse signal amplification by the reading circuit of electrode connection again, and then judge the position and the energy of incident particle.
When the reverse bias voltage is 13.6V as shown in fig. 4, the capacitance of the silicon pixel detector unit reaches a small value and is kept stable basically, which proves that the detector unit is exhausted, and at this time, the electric field at each position inside the silicon pixel detector unit is not zero as shown in fig. 5, the electric potential is gradually increased from the collecting cathode to the anode layer, the electric potential difference is uniformly distributed, the electric potential surface near the collecting cathode is dense, no dead zone is present inside the detector unit, the drift speed of the electron-hole pairs inside the detector unit is high, and the charge collection efficiency of the electrodes is good.
All the embodiments in the present specification are described in a related manner, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments may be referred to each other, and each embodiment focuses on the differences from the other embodiments.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
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1. The silicon pixel detector based on the floating electrode is characterized by comprising a cuboid-shaped silicon substrate (5), a square collecting cathode (1) is arranged in the middle of the top surface of the silicon substrate (5), a first floating electrode ring (2) and a second floating electrode ring (3) are arranged on the top surface of the silicon substrate (5) around the collecting cathode (1), the centers of the collecting cathode (1), the first floating electrode ring (2) and the second floating electrode ring (3) are the same, metal aluminum (7) is arranged on the top surface of the collecting cathode (1), silicon substrate (5) top surfaces around the metal aluminum (7), the first floating electrode ring (2) top surface and the second floating electrode ring (3) top surface are respectively provided with a silicon dioxide layer (4), and an anode layer (6) and the metal aluminum (7) are sequentially arranged on the bottom surface of the silicon substrate (5);
the width of the first floating electrode ring (2) is the same as that of the second floating electrode ring (3), and the distances between the collecting cathode (1) and the first floating electrode ring (2) and between the first floating electrode ring (2) and the second floating electrode ring (3) are the same.
2. A floating electrode based silicon pixel detector as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the silicon substrate (5) has a length x width x height of 80 μm x 300 μm, the collection cathode (1) has a top side with a length of 15 μm, the first floating electrode ring (2) and the second floating electrode ring (3) have a width of 10 μm, and the collection cathode (1) is spaced from the first floating electrode ring (2) and the first floating electrode ring (2) is spaced from the second floating electrode ring (3) by 5 μm.
3. Floating electrode based silicon pixel detector according to claim 1, characterized in that the collecting cathode (1), the first floating electrode ring (2), the second floating electrode ring (3) and the anode layer (6) are all 1 μm thick, and the metallic aluminum (7) and the silicon dioxide layer (4) are all 1 μm thick.
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