Optimization of a low noise detection circuit for probing the structure of damage cascades with IBIC
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Optimal detector / pre-amplifier combinations have been identified for the use of light ion IBIC (ion beam induced charge) to probe the physical structure of electrically active defects in damage cascades caused by heavy ion implantation. The ideal detector must have a sufficiently thin dead layer that incident ions will produce the majority of damage cascades in the depletion region of the detector rather than the dead layer. Detector and circuit noise must be low enough to detect the implantation of a single heavy ion as well as the decrease in the light ion IBIC signal caused by Shockley-Read-Hall recombination when the beam scans regions of the detector damaged by the heavy ion. The IBIC signals from three detectors irradiated with 750 keV He⁺ ions are measured with commercial and bespoke charge sensitive pre-amplifiers to identify the combination with the lowest noise.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 1214603
- Journal Information:
- Physics Procedia, Vol. 66, Issue C; ISSN 1875-3892
- Publisher:
- ElsevierCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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