Timing performance of radiation hard MALTA monolithic pixel sensors

Journal article

The MALTA family of Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (DMAPS) produced in Tower 180 nm CMOS technology targets radiation hard applications for the HL-LHC and beyond. Several process modifications and front-end improvements have resulted in radiation hardness up to $2 \times 10^{15}~1~\text{MeV}~\text{n}_{eq}/\text{cm}^2$ and time resolution below 2 ns, with uniform charge collection efficiency across the Pixel of size $36.4 \times 36.4~\mu\text{m}^2$ with a $3~\mu\text{m}^2$ electrode size. The MALTA2 demonstrator produced in 2021 on high-resistivity epitaxial silicon and on Czochralski substrates implements a new cascoded front-end that reduces the RTS noise and has a higher gain. This contribution shows results from MALTA2 on timing resolution at the nanosecond level from the CERN SPS test-beam campaign of 2021.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures. Submitted to Journal of Instrumentation (JINST). Proceedings of the 23rd International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors IWORID 202

Authors: Gustavino, G; Allport, P; Asensi, I; Berlea, DV; Bortoletto, D

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Journal: Journal of Instrumentation
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 03
• Pages: C03011-C03011
• Publication date: 2023-03-15
• DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/18/03/c03011
• EISSN: 1748-0221
• ISSN: 1748-0221
• Language: English
• Keywords: Nuclear physics; Nanosecond; Physics; Computer science; Radiation; Laser; Optoelectronics; Noise (video); Large Hadron Collider; Optics; Pixel; Radiation hardening; CMOS; Electrical engineering; Engineering; Materials science