Polycrystalline (pCVD) and single crystal (scCVD) diamond films grown from Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD), if sufficiently pure at Raman analysis, are very good materials for beam or flux monitors inside accelerators or nuclear reactors. This is because they are very hard to damage in high radiation fields and very resistant to high temperatures. Films of pCVD diamond are, however, not so good as spectroscopy detectors due to inhomogeneities induced by their growth in grains with the consequent presence of grain boundaries which worsen their energy resolution. The latter can be significantly improved by growing scCVD diamond films onto HPHT synthetic diamond substrates. We have shown that it is possible to measure the density of defects inside diamond specimens using as probes suitable penetrating nuclear radiations. With the preliminary results reported here we'll show that, bombarding CVD diamond films grown at Roma “Tor Vergata” with energetic protons and 4He, 6Li and 12C ions produced in the accelerators of Catania laboratories, the pulse height defects are higher than those in silicon detectors and likewise well described by a power law in the deposited energy. Furthermore, we'll show that pulse heights for the same particles seem to depend on the duration of the measurement, thus exhibiting a sort of depolarization of the insulator when exposed to the electric voltage which makes it a particle detector.

Tuve, C., Potenza, R., Chiorboli, M., Grimaldi, M., Larosa, F., Raimondo, F., et al. (2006). Pulse height defect in pCVD and scCVD diamond based detectors. DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS, 15(11-12), 1986-1989 [10.1016/j.diamond.2006.07.018].

Pulse height defect in pCVD and scCVD diamond based detectors

MARINELLI, MARCO;MILANI, ENRICO;TUCCIARONE, ALDO;VERONA RINATI, GIANLUCA
2006-01-01

Abstract

Polycrystalline (pCVD) and single crystal (scCVD) diamond films grown from Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD), if sufficiently pure at Raman analysis, are very good materials for beam or flux monitors inside accelerators or nuclear reactors. This is because they are very hard to damage in high radiation fields and very resistant to high temperatures. Films of pCVD diamond are, however, not so good as spectroscopy detectors due to inhomogeneities induced by their growth in grains with the consequent presence of grain boundaries which worsen their energy resolution. The latter can be significantly improved by growing scCVD diamond films onto HPHT synthetic diamond substrates. We have shown that it is possible to measure the density of defects inside diamond specimens using as probes suitable penetrating nuclear radiations. With the preliminary results reported here we'll show that, bombarding CVD diamond films grown at Roma “Tor Vergata” with energetic protons and 4He, 6Li and 12C ions produced in the accelerators of Catania laboratories, the pulse height defects are higher than those in silicon detectors and likewise well described by a power law in the deposited energy. Furthermore, we'll show that pulse heights for the same particles seem to depend on the duration of the measurement, thus exhibiting a sort of depolarization of the insulator when exposed to the electric voltage which makes it a particle detector.
2006
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Rilevanza internazionale
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Sì, ma tipo non specificato
Settore FIS/01 - FISICA SPERIMENTALE
English
Con Impact Factor ISI
Single crystal CVD diamond detectors; Charge collection efficiency = 100%
Tuve, C., Potenza, R., Chiorboli, M., Grimaldi, M., Larosa, F., Raimondo, F., et al. (2006). Pulse height defect in pCVD and scCVD diamond based detectors. DIAMOND AND RELATED MATERIALS, 15(11-12), 1986-1989 [10.1016/j.diamond.2006.07.018].
Tuve, C; Potenza, R; Chiorboli, M; Grimaldi, M; Larosa, F; Raimondo, F; Marinelli, M; Milani, E; Tucciarone, A; VERONA RINATI, G
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