semiconductor detectors for particle physics
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Semiconductor Detectors for Particle Physics. Outline. Background Objectives of lecture course Contents Part 1/4. TECHNOLOGY. PHYSICS. INDUSTRY. HEP Experiments. ATLAS CDF LHCb. Focus of Activities. High Precision Tracking. Facilities. Liverpool Semiconductor Detector Centre - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Outline
•Background•Objectives of lecture course•Contents•Part 1/4
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TECHNOLOGYTECHNOLOGY
INDUSTRYINDUSTRY
PHYSICPHYSICSS
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HEP Experiments
•ATLAS•CDF•LHCb
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Focus of Activities
•High Precision Tracking
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Facilities
• Liverpool Semiconductor Detector Centre
• Electronic and Mechanical Design and Integration
• Sensor Simulation• Workshop
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LSDC
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ATLAS
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CDF Layer 00
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LHCb VELO
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CCDs
•LCFI– CCD
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Active Pixels
•Future– integration of pixels and electronics– low mass – low cost
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Objectives
• Basic concepts of semiconductors
• Simple Devices• Fabrication
Techniques• Particle Physics
Experiments
• Sensors• Assembly and
Testing• Advanced
Techniques• Future
Developments
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Level…
•Basic semiconductor physics– Not a course on Solid State
•A little Particle Physics– Concepts– Detectors
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Notes for Course
•Written notes on webhttp://www.ph.liv.ac.uk/~tjvb/teaching
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Text Books
• Sze – Semiconductor Detectors• Taur & Ning – Modern VLSI devices• Nicollian & Brews – MOS Physics
and Technology
• Early chapters/lectures have drawn heavily on these sources….
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Course Structure
•Part 1: Basic Semiconductors•Part 2: Particle Physics and
technology•Part 3: Future technology and
advanced topics
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Basic Semiconductors • BASICS• 1.1 Properties of Materials• 1.2 Energy Bands• 1.3 Carrier Concentration• 1.4 Transitions• CARRIER PROPERTIES• 2.1 Transport Phenomena• 2.2 Carrier Diffusion• 2.3 Generation/Recombination.• 2.4 Continuity Equation• 2.5 High Field Effects• 2.6 Summary of Properties of
Si• P-N JUNCTION• 3.1 Thermal Equilibrium• 3.2 Depletion Region• 3.3 Junction Capacitance• 3.4 Current-Voltage Properties• 3.5 Breakdown• 3.6 Bipolar Transistor Action
• JUNCTIONS• 4.1 Metal Semiconductor
Junction• 4.2 JFET• 4.3 MOS diode• 4.4 MOSFET• WAFER PROCESSING• 5.2 Wafer Properties• 5.3 Ion Implantation and
Diffusion• 5.4 Lithography and Etching• 5.5Polysilicon• 5.6Dielectric Layers• 5.7Metallization• SIMULATION• 6.1 Simple models• 6.2 Commercial Packages• 6.3Typical Uses in Particle Physics• 6.4Limitations
Lecture 1 Lecture 2
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Devices in Particle Physics
• HEP EXPERIMENTS• 7.1 Accelerators• 7.2 Interactions• 7.3Detectors and Technologies• PHOTONIC DEVICES• 8.1 Photons• 8.2Photoemitters• 8.3Photodetectors• STRIP DETECTORS• 9.1 Simple Sensors• 9.2DC Coupled Strip Devices• 9.3AC Coupled Strip Devices• 9.4Strip Bias Techniques• 9.5Spatial Resolution• 9.6Edge Effects• 9.7Bulk and Implants
• PIXEL DETECTORS• 10.1 Pads, Strips and Pixels• 10.2 Pixel Detectors• 10.3 Bonding• CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES• 9.8 Readout• 11.1 CCD• 11.2 High Speed Readout• APPLICATIONS• 12.1 SLAC• 12.2 Fermilab• 12.3 CERN
Lecture 2/3 Lecture 3
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Advanced Techniques• RADIATION TOLERANCE• 13.1 Effects of Radiation• 13.2 Strip Detectors• 13.3 Pixels Detectors• 13.4 CCDs• 3D PROCESSING• 14.1 Edge Processing• 14.2 3D detectors• 14.3 Laser Cutting• DRIFT DETECTORS• 15.1 Solid State Drift• 15.2 Applications• CMOS• 16.1 Technology• 16.2 Active Pixel Sensors
Lecture 4
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Basics
•Properties of Materials•Energy Bands•Carrier Concentration•Transitions
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Properties of Materials
•Conductivity
Conductivities of insulators, semiconductors and conductors
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Silicon
• By far the most important semiconductor for detector development is silicon.
• The discovery of silicon (L. silex: silicis, flint) - silicium in French - is generally credited to Berzelius 1824. – He prepared amorphous silicon heating potassium with silicon
tetrafluorided and purified the product by removing the fluosilicates by repeated washings.
– Deville in 1854 first prepared crystalline silicon, the second allotropic form of the element.
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Silicon cont’d
• Silicon is present in the sun and stars – principal component of a class of meteorites known as aerolites. It is also a
component of tektites, a natural glass of uncertain origin.
• Silicon makes up 25.7% of the earth's crust, – by weight, and is the second most abundant element, being exceeded only
by oxygen.
• Silicon is not found free in nature, but occurs chiefly as the oxide and as silicates.
– Sand, quartz, rock crystal, amethyst, agate, flint, jasper, and opal are some of the forms in which the oxide appears. Granite, hornblende, asbestos, feldspar, clay, mica, etc. are but a few of the numerous silicate minerals.
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Silicon cont’d
• Silicon is one of man's most useful elements. In the form of sand and clay it is used to make concrete and brick;– it is a useful refractory material for high-temperature work, and in
the form of silicates it is used in making enamels, pottery, etc.
• Silica, as sand, is a principal ingredient of glass,– one of the most inexpensive of materials with excellent
mechanical, optical, thermal, and electrical properties.
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No silicon life forms…
•At least not life as we know it…
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Periodic Table
Table 2 Part of the periodic table containing silicon
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Silicon Properties
• Atomic Number14• Melting Point 1687 K• Atomic Symbol Si• Boiling Point 3538 K• Atomic Weight 28.0855• Density2.3296 g/cm3• Electronic Configuration(Ne)(3s)2(3p)2
• Ionization Potential8.1eV
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Crystal Structure
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bcc
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Diamond Structure
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Diamond Structure
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Packing Ratio
•For silicon this ratio is about 0.3 which may be compared with the value for a closely packed (classical) system which occupies over 0.7. (see Problem 1.1 and 1.2)
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Miller Indices
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Si (111)
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Valence Bonds
• The silicon crystal is bound together via valence bonds.
• Silicon is tetravalent and is able to share its outer four electrons with each of its four neighbours.– Each identical electron cannot thus be uniquely associated with a
particular atom. The force of attraction between the atoms can only be calculated using complex quantum chemistry techniques and involves a detailed knowledge, or prediction, of the electron wavefunctions in the solid.
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Valence Bonds
• Positive ion cores should be kept apart to minimize the Coulomb energy
• Valence electrons should also be kept apart
• Valence electrons should stay close to positive ions to maximize attraction
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Si Bonds
• For covalent crystals e.g. Silicon or carbon the bond is very strong– The other important feature of the covalent bond is that it is strongly
directional.– It is this that gives rise to the tehahedral diamond structure we have
already discussed and hence why the packing ratio, and hence density, of the diamond lattice is so low.
• A curiosity associated with the Si diamond structure is that electrons localized within a “bond” have the tendency to be spin aligned.
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Energy Bands
•Free electron 22
2k
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Energy Bands
•Bloch Theorem in 1D
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Perturbation Theory
•Solution allowed if
V E V E V Vni ni111
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value V12=VG.
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Perturbation Theory
• Solution. Bandgap is natural
GVE
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Effective Mass
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Effective Mass
• For an electron at the top of a band, the effective mass is negative– the electron decelerating as the field is applied and the
electron exchanges momentum with the lattice.
• At the bottom of the band the electron behaves much as a free particle having an E-k relation almost the same as that in free space.
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Holes
• The peculiar behaviour of an electron close to the top of an energy band is usefully understood in terms of the behaviour of vacant states, or holes. In a full energy band containing n electrons with no net current flow
• If the mth is missing there will, instantaneously, be a net current equal to
• i.e. the net current is the same as that due to a particle with the same velocity as the missing electron but carrying opposite charge.
• Thus for a system containing a missing electron close the top of the band,
– behaviour of the system may be considered to that of a positive particle moving with an effective mass which is positive.
n
nve 0
mn
mn evve
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Band Structure Si
Conduction Band
Valence band
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E-k Surface
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Density of States
2/12/3
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24)( E
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Metals, insulators and Semiconductors
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Materials
• For an insulator the first energy band is completely filled.
– In order for an electron to move within the crystal when an electric field is applied energy must be supplied (from thermal excitation) to drive an electron across the forbidden region into the conduction band. If the band gap is sufficiently large, compared to thermal energies, i.e several eV, the transition rarely takes place and the material is an insulator.
• If the energy gap is not too large (1.1eV in Si) then thermal excitations will leave some electrons in the conduction band at all time.
– As the temperature is increased(decreased) the conductivity will increase(decrease). This is the classic behaviour of a semiconductor.
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1.3 Carrier Concentration
• Fermi-Dirac (FD)
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Carrier Concentration
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Fermi Energy
• The Fermi energy, EF, may be defined as the energy at which the probability of occupation in FFD is 0.5. – Another physical definition, entirely equivalent, is to define EF , as
the energy of the maximum allowed state at T=0.
• The Fermi energy, EF, is also the energy associated with a particle, which is in thermal equilibrium with the system of interest. – This same quantity is called the electro-chemical potential, , in most
thermodynamics texts
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Fermi Energy
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Intrinsic Semiconductors
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Electrons in Conduction Band
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Electrons in Conduction Band
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Holes
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Fermi Energy
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Intrinsic Carrier Density
• Eliminate EF
2innp
kTEVCi
geNNn /2
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Intrinsic Carrier Density
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Intrinsic Carriers
• Since the level of carriers is so low this means that to observe intrinsic behaviour in Si (at room temperature) we must work with very pure samples in which the ionized impurity level must be less than about 10-10 of the atomic density at room temperature.
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Mass Action
• Law
2innp
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Acceptors and Donors
• If the semiconductor is doped then impurity energy levels are introduced.
• For example if an arsenic atom is introduced into the lattice it may displace a silicon atom.
– The arsenic has an additional valence electron to silicon and “donates” this to the conduction band making the silicon more “n” (negative) type because of its carrier type.
– The arsenic atom is a donor(of electrons),
• Similarly if a boron atom displaces a Si atom then as it only posesses three valence electrons then a hole is created in the crystal. This then makes the crystal more “p”-type (positive charge carrier).
– the boron an acceptor(of electrons).
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Extrinsic Semiconductor
•When the crystal properties are dominated by the impurities it is said to have become an extrinsic semiconductor to differentiate it from the intrinsic semiconductors discussed above.
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N-type
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p-type
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With donors and acceptors
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Approximation
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Fermi Energies
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1.4 Transitions
• How do electrons/holes move…
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Transistion Si
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Carrier Properties
•Transport Phenomena•Carrier Diffusion•Generation Recombination•Continuity Equations•High Field Effects•Summary of Si Properties
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Transport Phenomena
• Thermal velocity– that each degree of motional freedom possesses, on average, rise
to ½ kT of energy thus
• At room temperature the student is often surprised to find that the average thermal velocity is approximately 107cm/s for Si.– This type of motion is random and is rapidly reversed as the
particle hits many scattering centres per second, typically the time between interactions, being as small as a ps.
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Drift Velocity
mobility
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Mobility
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Mobility
• It is important to note that the mobility is a direct function of the amount of scattering (i.e. of the mean free time between collisions) that takes place in the material. – The more scattering that takes place the lower the mobility
we expect. Thus the introduction of impurities into the crystal should reduce the mobility.
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Mobility
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Mobility
• Scattering by lattice waves includes the absorption or emission of either acoustical or optical phonons.
– Since the density of phonons in a solid increases with temperature, the scattering time due to this mechanism will decrease as will the mobility
• T-3/2
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Mobility
Higher for electrons
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Mobility
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Resisitivty
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Carrier Diffusion
n(x) n(x+l)
x
l
l
N
Jn
In diffusion carriers tend to move from a region of high carrier concentration towards a region of low carrier concentration.
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Diffusion
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Einstein Relation
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Current Density
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Generation Recombination
• A very important property of a semiconductor is its behaviour when exposed to ionizing radiation
– gives rise to electron hole pairs, or the generation of carriers.
• Other phenomena such as the transfer of energy from the lattice
– to create an electron-hole pair is also a common source of carrier generation.
• The recombination of carriers,– in which electron-holes pairs “annihilate” is a separate but equally important
phenomenon.
• The recombination may take several forms. – The energy that is released when the electron-hole pair recombine may manifest itself
wither as a photon or energy transferred directly to the lattice (as heat). When the photon is emitted the process is a radiative recombination.
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Recombination
• A further distinction is drawn between the recombination phenomena in direct and indirect semiconductors (see section 1.3)– For direct semiconductors direct recombination– In indirect semiconductors (e.g. Si) indirect
recombination dominates.
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Direct Recombination
• In direct semiconductors the recombination process is relatively easy to understand. – An electron makes a transition from the conduction band
down to the valence band annihilating a hole state. It will be relatively easy for them to annihilate as there is not need to invoke an interaction with the crystal lattice in order to conserve energy and momentum
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Indirect Recombination
• In indirect the recombination the situation is substantially more complicated. – The direct recombination process is heavily suppressed due to the
difficulty of simultaneously transferring the appropriate amount of energy and momentum to the crystal to conserve these quantities.
• The dominant recombination process has then to procede via a localized energy state, often in the bandgap. These states are called recombination centres or traps.
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Indirect Recombination
• The prediction of the behaviour of these recombination centres is unfortunately quite messy,
– but as it has an vital bearing on the radiation properties of Si sensors we are obligated to make an attempt to describe the underlying processes.
• Following the Sze we note that there are four basic processes that can take place from the intermediate states to the conduction and valence bands.
– Capture and emission of holes and capture and emission of electrons. (see Figure 27)
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• See notes!!
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Recombination
• In a simple case where we have strongly n-type material then n>>p. Also if we assume that the system is such that the centres are close to the centre of the bandgap then (for strong doping) . Under these conditions we see that if the material is in a low charge injection mode (n~no) where no is the thermal equilibrium condition
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We get faster recombination in a hotter system, with “larger” trapping cross-section and more recombination centres.
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Recombination
• A similar expression is obtained in a p-type semiconductor. Note that in n-type silicon =0.3μs and in p-type Si 1.0 μs. – Signal rise times we will see are faster!
• Thus the recombination lifetime echos the higher mobility of the electrons.
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Recombination and Generation
• For most of our applications for sensor design the above will be especially important when we consider impurities, either added during production time, or induced during irradiation.
– For example “poisoning” a silicon sensor with Gold can reduce the minority carrier lifetime by many orders of magnitude from about 1.0s to 0.1ns.
• Irradiation, to which we will return in Part 3 of these notes, has the effect of introducting mid-bandgap energy levels through damage to the lattice.
– These will become recombination and generation centres. Note the electron irradiation does have a different effect to neutron irradiation. Neutron irradiation creates acceptor levels very close to the effective Fermi level, whereas electrons create energy bands just above the valence band.
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Continuity Equations
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Continuity Equations
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High Field Effects
• Velocity saturation– On the most important high electric field effects in a semiconductor
is the relationship between the mobility and the field. As the field is increased from low values the mobility (velocity) increase linearly. However as the carrier energy increases beyond the optical phonon energy the probability of the carrier emitting an optical phonon increases dramatically. This mechanism causes the carrier velocity to saturate with increasing electric field.
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Avalanches
• If the electric field is sufficiently high then the carriers (electrons or holes) will have enough energy to create additional electron hole pairs. – The number of electron-holes pairs generated by an electron
per unit distance travelled is called the ionization rate for the electron. The same definition holds for holes. Avalanches are typified by values of of order 104/cm or greater.
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Ionization Rate
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Summary of Si Properties
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p-n Junction
•Thermal Equilibrium•Depletion Region•Junction Capacitance•Current Voltage Properties•Breakdown•Bipolar Transistor Action
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Thermal Equilibrium
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Joining the junction
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Contact
•Of course on “contact” at the metallurgical junction neither the n-type nor p-type sides are in thermal equilibrium as electrons will diffuse to the p-type side and holes to the n-type side.
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Thermal Equilibrium
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Thermal Equilibirum
• As the electrons diffuse towards the p-side and holes diffuse the n-side they leave behind ionized donors or acceptors. On the n-side a region of depth xn develops which is depleted of electrons. On the p-side a region of depth xp develops which is depleted of holes.
• As the electrons drift towards the p-side leaving behind a positive net charge electrons will be attracted from the p-side towards the n-side i.e a field is set up so the drift of electrons is towards the n-side. The holes on the p-side also diffuse so as to set up a field that causes drift of holes towards the p-side.
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Fermi Level
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Built in Potential
• Solve Poisson’s Equation
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Built in Potential
•Note the p-side has a higher electron energy therefore the built in potential is +’ve towards the n-side. For typical Si devices the built in potential is of order 0.6V.
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Depletion Region
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• The charge density in these two regions is dominated by that of the fully ionized donors (+’ve charge) and the fully ionized acceptors (-ve charge).
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Depletion Region
• If the material is strongly doped on one side e.g. p+n (NA>>ND) then the depletion then the depletion layer on the p-side is very small#
• In this case the width of the depletion zone depends on the lighter doping of the “bulk”. Note also the dependence on the depletion depth on the square root of the internal potential.
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3.3 Junction Capacitance
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Current Voltage Properties
• The rectifying behaviour of the p-n junction which is evident from studying simple p-n devices has a relatively simple source. Assuming that the junction may be approximated by:
– A system in which outside of the depletion zone the material is neutral– The depletion zone has sharp boundaries i.e. the transition regions are very small– The majority carrier density is much larger than the minority carrier currents– No recombination nor generation is taking place in the depleted zone i.e. all the
currents are due to diffusion– The electron and holes currents are uniform throughout depletion zone
• It is possible to calculate the current through the p-n junction as a function of applied voltage. Here we follow the derivation by Sze very closely.
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IV
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Summary L1
•Basics of Si •Theory
– Semiconductors– The p-n junction– Depletion Region