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Solid semiconductor sensors are used as detectors in high-energy physics experiments, in medical applications, in space missions and elsewhere. Minimal knowledge of the electric field inside the elementary cells of these sensors is highly important for their performance understanding. The field governs the charge propagation processes and ultimately determines the size and quality of the electronic signal of the cell. Hence, the simulation of these sensors as detectors in different analyses relies strongly on the field knowledge. For a certain voltage applied to the cell, the field depends on the specifics of the device's growth and fabrication. The information about these is often commercially protected or otherwise very difficult to encode in state-of-the-art technology computer-aided-design (TCAD) software. In this work, we show that by taking the top-down approach, combining public beam-test data and a very limited public TCAD knowledge, we are able to effectively approximate the 3D electric field function in the pixel cell of one important and widely used example, namely the ALPIDE sensor, for simulating the charge propagation processes. Despite its broad usage worldwide, the

Author

Santra, Arka; Hod, Noam Tal

Published

2022

Language

EN