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Testbeam results of the Picosecond Avalanche Detector proof-of-concept prototype
2022, Iacobucci, G., Zambito, S., Milanesio, M., Moretti, T., Saidi, J., Paolozzi, L., Munker, M., Cardella, R., Martinelli, F., Picardi, A., Rücker, H., Trusch, A., Valerio, P., Cadoux, F., Cardarelli, R., Débieux, S., Favre, Y., Fenoglio, C.A., Ferrere, D., Gonzalez-Sevilla, S., Gurimskaya, Y., Kotitsa, R., Magliocca, C., Nessi, M., Pizarro-Medina, A., Sabater Iglesias, J., Vicente Barreto Pinto, M.
The proof-of-concept prototype of the Picosecond Avalanche Detector, a multi-PN junction monolithic silicon detector with continuous gain layer deep in the sensor depleted region, was tested with a beam of 180 GeV pions at the CERN SPS. The prototype features low noise and fast SiGe BiCMOS frontend electronics and hexagonal pixels with 100 μm pitch. At a sensor bias voltage of 125 V, the detector provides full efficiency and average time resolution of 30, 25 and 17 ps in the overall pixel area for a power consumption of 0.4, 0.9 and 2.7 W/cm2, respectively. In this first prototype the time resolution depends significantly on the distance from the center of the pixel, varying at the highest power consumption measured between 13 ps at the center of the pixel and 25 ps in the inter-pixel region.
Picosecond Avalanche Detector — working principle and gain measurement with a proof-of-concept prototype
2022, Paolozzi, L., Munker, M., Cardella, R., Milanesio, M., Gurimskaya, Y., Martinelli, F., Picardi, A., Rücker, H., Trusch, A., Valerio, P., Cadoux, F., Cardarelli, R., Débieux, S., Favre, Y., Fenoglio, C.A., Ferrere, D., Gonzalez-Sevilla, S., Kotitsa, R., Magliocca, C., Moretti, T., Nessi, M., Pizarro Medina, A., Sabater Iglesias, J., Saidi, J., Vicente Barreto Pinto, M., Zambito, S., Iacobucci, G.
The Picosecond Avalanche Detector is a multi-junction silicon pixel detector based on a (NP)drift(NP)gain structure, devised to enable charged-particle tracking with high spatial resolution and picosecond time-stamp capability. It uses a continuous junction deep inside the sensor volume to amplify the primary charge produced by ionizing radiation in a thin absorption layer. The signal is then induced by the secondary charges moving inside a thicker drift region. A proof-of-concept monolithic prototype, consisting of a matrix of hexagonal pixels with 100 μm pitch, has been produced using the 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS process by IHP microelectronics. Measurements on probe station and with a 55Fe X-ray source show that the prototype is functional and displays avalanche gain up to a maximum electron gain of 23. A study of the avalanche characteristics, corroborated by TCAD simulations, indicates that space-charge effects due to the large primary charge produced by the conversion of X-rays from the ^55Fe source limits the effective gain.
A 50 ps resolution monolithic active pixel sensor without internal gain in SiGe BiCMOS technology
2019, Iacobucci, G., Cardarelli, R., Débieux, S., Di Bello, F.A., Favre, Y., Hayakawa, D., Kaynak, M., Nessi, M., Paolozzi, L., Rücker, H., Sultan, D.M.S., Valerio, P.
A monolithic pixelated silicon detector designed for high time resolution has been produced in the SG13G2 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS technology of IHP. This proof-of-concept chip contains hexagonal pixels of 65 µm and 130 µm side. The SiGe front-end electronics implemented provides an equivalent noise charge of 90 and 160 e- for a pixel capacitance of 70 and 220 fF, respectively, and a total time walk of less than 1 ns. Lab measurements with a 90Sr source show a time resolution of the order of 50 ps. This result is competitive with silicon technologies that integrate an avalanche gain mechanism. © 2019 CERN.