SiC detectors: A review on the use of silicon carbide as radiation detection material

M De Napoli - Frontiers in physics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Silicon Carbide (SiC) is a wide bandgap semiconductor with many excellent properties that
make it one of the most promising and well-studied materials for radiation particle detection …

Silicon carbide and its use as a radiation detector material

F Nava, G Bertuccio, A Cavallini… - … Science and Technology, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive review of the properties of the epitaxial 4H silicon carbide
polytype (4H–SiC). Particular emphasis is placed on those aspects of this material related to …

SiCILIA—silicon carbide detectors for intense luminosity investigations and applications

S Tudisco, F La Via, C Agodi, C Altana, G Borghi… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Silicon carbide (SiC) is a compound semiconductor, which is considered as a possible
alternative to silicon for particles and photons detection. Its characteristics make it very …

Deep levels by proton and electron irradiation in 4H–SiC

A Castaldini, A Cavallini, L Rigutti, F Nava… - Journal of Applied …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
The effects on 4H-silicon carbide epilayers of irradiation with protons and electrons having
particle energies, respectively, of 6.5 and 8.2 MeV were carefully studied and critically …

Advances in silicon carbide X-ray detectors

G Bertuccio, S Caccia, D Puglisi, D Macera - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2011 - Elsevier
The latest advances in SiC X-ray detectors are presented: a pixel detector coupled to a
custom ultra low noise CMOS preamplifier has been characterized at room and high …

Low temperature annealing of electron irradiation induced defects in 4H-SiC

A Castaldini, A Cavallini, L Rigutti, F Nava - Applied Physics Letters, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
Low temperature annealing of electron irradiation-induced deep levels in 4 H-SiC is
reported. The major deep level transient spectroscopy peak S2 associated with the energy …

Radiation Detection Properties of 4H-SiC Schottky Diodes Irradiated Up ton/cmby 1 MeV Neutrons

F Nava, A Castaldini, A Cavallini… - IEEE transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report the results of an experimental study on the radiation hardness of 4H-SiC diodes
used as alpha-particle detectors with 1 MeV neutrons up to a fluence of 8times10 15 n/cm 2 …

Study of Schottky barrier detectors based on a high quality 4H-SiC epitaxial layer with different thickness

B Zaťko, L Hrubčín, A Šagátová, J Osvald… - Applied Surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
Schottky barrier detectors based on a high-quality 4H-SiC epitaxial layer with varied
thickness up to 70 μm were studied. The detectors had front-side circular Ni/Au Schottky …

Minimum ionizing and alpha particles detectors based on epitaxial semiconductor silicon carbide

F Nava, P Vanni, M Bruzzi… - … on Nuclear Science, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The relatively high value of the energy required to produce an electron-hole pair in silicon
carbide, SiC, by a minimum ionizing particle (MIP) against the value for Si, imposes severe …

Silicon carbide detector for laser-generated plasma radiation

G Bertuccio, D Puglisi, L Torrisi, C Lanzieri - Applied Surface Science, 2013 - Elsevier
We present the performance of a Silicon Carbide (SiC) detector in the acquisition of the
radiation emitted by laser generated plasmas. The detector has been employed in time of …