Single Photon Avalanche Diodes for Space Applications (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Single Photon Avalanche Diodes for Space Applications (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2012-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1109 (literal)
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  • Moscatelli F, Marisaldi M, Maccagnani P, Labanti C, Fuschino F, Prest M, Berra A, Bolognini D, Ghioni M, Rech I, Gulinatti A, Giudice A, Simmerle G, Candelori A, Mattiazzo S, Sun XL, Cavanaugh JF, Rubini D (2012)
    Single Photon Avalanche Diodes for Space Applications
    in IEEE conference record - Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference.
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  • Moscatelli F, Marisaldi M, Maccagnani P, Labanti C, Fuschino F, Prest M, Berra A, Bolognini D, Ghioni M, Rech I, Gulinatti A, Giudice A, Simmerle G, Candelori A, Mattiazzo S, Sun XL, Cavanaugh JF, Rubini D (literal)
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  • 129 (literal)
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  • 135 (literal)
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  • 8443 (literal)
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  • ISI Web of Science (WOS) (literal)
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  • CNR-IMM Bologna, Via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy; INAF-IASF Bologna, Via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy; Università Degli Studi dell'Insubria, INFN Sezione di Milano Bicocca, Via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy; Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy; Micro Photon Devices, Via Stradivari 4, 39100 Bolzano, Italy; INFN Sezione di Padova and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Degli Studi di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova, Italy; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mail Code 694, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States; Italian Space Agency, Viale Liegi 26, 00198 Roma, Italy (literal)
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  • Single Photon Avalanche Diodes for Space Applications (literal)
Abstract
  • We study the possibility to use Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) optically coupled to scintillating fibers as a novel type of gamma-ray detector for space applications. SPADs are silicon devices operating under polarization conditions above the junction breakdown voltage (typical overvoltage of 5V), for which a single photon interacting in the active region is sufficient to trigger a self sustainable avalanche discharge. SPADs can thus be used for the detection of very low light levels with an absolute timing accuracy of about 30 ps for single photon detection, without spectroscopic capabilities. In this presentation we report the preliminary results on large area SPAD (actual results refers to SPADs having 200 ?m diameter, with the aim to grow up to 500 ?m SPADs) coupled to scintillating fibers as the basic module for a particle tracker for space application. Dark counts rate as low as few tens of kHz at room temperature, lowering down to few kHz at -10°C have been obtained for the 200 ?m devices, in accordance with the basic requirements for the proposed application. Similar instruments based on silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) readout have already been studied, but none based on SPAD has been realized up to now. Moreover, since very few information is available on SPADs for the use in a space environment, we performed bulk damage and total dose radiation tests with protons and gamma-rays in order to evaluate their radiation hardness properties and their suitability for application in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) space mission. With this aim the SPAD devices have be irradiated using up to 20 krad total dose with gamma-rays and 5 krad with protons (literal)
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