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Displacement damage in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon p-i-n diodes and charge selective contacts detectors
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  • Mauro Menichelli ,
  • Marco Bizzarri ,
  • Maurizio Boscardin ,
  • Lucio Calcagnile ,
  • Mirco Caprai ,
  • Anna Paola Caricato ,
  • Giuseppe Antonio Pablo ,
  • Michele Crivellari ,
  • Ilaria Cupparo ,
  • Giacomo Cuttone ,
  • Sylvain Dunand ,
  • Livio Fanò ,
  • Benedetta Gianfelici ,
  • Omar Hammad ,
  • Maria Movileanu-Ionica ,
  • keida kanxheri ,
  • Matthew Large ,
  • Giuseppe Maruccio ,
  • Anna Grazia Monteduro ,
  • Francesco Moscatelli ,
  • Arianna Morozzi ,
  • Andrea Papi ,
  • Daniele Passeri ,
  • Maddalena Pedio ,
  • Marco Petasecca ,
  • Giada Petringa ,
  • Francesca Peverini ,
  • Gianluca Quarta ,
  • Silvia Rizzato ,
  • Alessandro Rossi ,
  • giulia rossi ,
  • Andrea Scorzoni ,
  • Leonello Servoli ,
  • Cinzia Talamonti ,
  • Giovanni Verzellesi ,
  • Nicolas Wyrsch
Mauro Menichelli
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Marco Bizzarri
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Maurizio Boscardin
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Lucio Calcagnile
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Mirco Caprai
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Anna Paola Caricato
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Giuseppe Antonio Pablo
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Michele Crivellari
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Ilaria Cupparo
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Giacomo Cuttone
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Omar Hammad
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Maria Movileanu-Ionica
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keida kanxheri
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Matthew Large
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Anna Grazia Monteduro
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Francesco Moscatelli
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Andrea Papi
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Daniele Passeri
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Maddalena Pedio
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Marco Petasecca
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Giada Petringa
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Gianluca Quarta
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Silvia Rizzato
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Alessandro Rossi
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giulia rossi
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Andrea Scorzoni
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Leonello Servoli
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Cinzia Talamonti
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Giovanni Verzellesi
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Abstract

Hydrogenated amorphous silicon is a well known detector material for its radiation resistance. This study concern 10 µm thickness, p-i-n and charge selective contacts planar diode detectors which were irradiated with neutrons at two fluence values: 1016 neq/cm2 and 5 x 1016 neq/cm2. In order to evaluate their radiation resistance, detector leakage current and response to X-ray photons have been measured. The effect of annealing for performance recovery at 100°C for 12 and 24 hours has also been studied. The results for the 1016 neq/cm2 irradiation show a factor 2 increase in leakage current that is completely recovered after annealing for p-i-n devices while charge selective contacts devices show an overall decrease of the leakage current at the end of the annealing process compared to the measurement before the irradiation. X-ray dosimetric sensitivity degrades, for this fluence, at the end of irradiation but partially recovers for charge selective contacts devices and increases for p-i-n devices  at the end of the annealing process. Concerning the 5 x 1016 neq/cm2 irradiation test (for p-i-n structures only), due to the activation that occurred during the irradiation phase, the results were taken after 146 days of storage at around 0° C, during this period, a self-annealing effect may have occurred. Therefore the results after annealing show a small but noticeable degradation in leakage current and x-ray sensitivity, after irradiation and storage.