Radiation hardness and timing performance in MALTA monolithic pixel sensors in TowerJazz 180 nm

Journal article

The MALTA family of depleted monolithic pixel sensors produced in TowerJazz 180 nm CMOS technology target radiation hard applications for the HL-LHC and beyond. Several process modifications and front-end improvements have resulted in radiation hardness >10(15) 1 MeV n(eq)/cm(2) and time resolution below 2 ns, with uniform charge collection and efficiency across the pixel of size 36.4 x 36.4 mu m(2) with small collection electrode. This contribution will present the comparison of samples produced on high-resistivity epitaxial silicon with Czochralski substrates, before and after neutron irradiation, and results from MALTA2 with a new cascoded front-end flavour that further reduces the RTS noise

Authors: van Rijnbach, M; Allport, P; Asensi, I; Berdalovic, I; Bortoletto, D

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Journal: Journal of Instrumentation
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 04
• Pages: C04034-C04034
• Publication date: 2022-04-29
• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/17/04/c04034
• EISSN: 1748-0221
• ISSN: 1748-0221
• Language: English
• Keywords: Optoelectronics; Noise (video); Irradiation; Physics; Radiation hardening; Silicon; Computer science; Pixel; Materials science; Optics; Nuclear physics; CMOS; Radiation; Neutron; Large Hadron Collider