Published October 21, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Elimination and formation of electrically active defects in hydrogenated silicon particle detectors irradiated with electrons

  • 1. Belarusian State University, Minsk (Belarus)
  • 2. Institute of Solid State and Semiconductor Physics, Minsk (Belarus)
  • 3. Hamburg University, Hamburg (Germany)
  • 4. CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 5. National Institute of Materials Physics, Bucharest-Magurele (Romania)
  • 6. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna (Russian Federation)

Description

The influence of preliminary treatment in hydrogen plasma on elimination of radiation defects and formation of thermal donors has been studied in detector structures made of standard float zone silicon. The detectors were irradiated with 3.5 MeV electrons and annealed at temperatures of 50-350 deg. C. It has been found that preliminary hydrogenation at 300 deg. C leads to disappearance of divacancies and vacancy-oxygen complexes at lower annealing temperatures. The annealing of hydrogenated and irradiated crystals is accompanied by hydrogen redistribution and formation of hydrogen-related donors

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nima.2005.06.010;
PII
S0168-9002(05)01174-5;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Journal Volume
552
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 77-81
ISSN
0168-9002
CODEN
NIMAER

Conference

Title
5. international conference on radiation effects on semiconductor materials, detectors and devices
Dates
10-13 Oct 2004
Place
Florence (Italy)

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Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.