Silicon Detectors for Tracking and Vertexing Andrei Nomerotski, University of Oxford INSTR08, Novosibirsk 29 February 2008 1 Andrei Nomerotski Silicon Detectors Using silicon diode as s detector 1951: first observation of signals in reversely biased p-n junction from a’s Development for tracking stimulated by need to measure short-lived charm/beauty quarks and tau lepton in ’70 1980, J.Kemmer: first proposed to use planar process developed in industry to produce strip silicon detectors Fast, localized charge deposition 3 micron intrinsic resolution Planar process dimensions precise to 1 micron, low cost 2 Andrei Nomerotski Vertex Detectors SLD data events with clear primary (left) and secondary (right) vertices 3 Andrei Nomerotski Trackers 200 MeV protons hitting CMS pixel module at shallow angle (Roland Horisberger, PSI) 4 Andrei Nomerotski Silicon for Vertex Detectors Resolution at IP for two layers with resolution s r1/r2 should be as small as possible for s=10 mm, r1/r2=0.5, sb = 20 mm multiple scattering r2 can’t be large Beampipe f 5 cm, thickness 1 mm Be = 0.3% X0 28 mm at IP for P = 1 GeV Two conclusions First layer as close as possible to Interaction Point As thin as possible 5 Andrei Nomerotski Silicon for Tracking Precise measurement of curvature excellent momentum resolution Low occupancy per strip excellent pattern recognition 2D 3D information Strip detectors: ghosts complicate pattern recognition Pixel detectors – best possible pattern recognition 6 Andrei Nomerotski Strip Detectors Depleted p-n diodes Fast and efficient charge collection by drift in electric field 4 fC in 300 micron of Si Each strip has capacitance to backplane and neighbours Noise is typically dominated by serial contributions scales with detector capacitance 7 Andrei Nomerotski Strips vs Pixels Strip detectors Large capacitance, 10 pF Large signal, 24000 e Large noise, 2000 e Pixel detectors Well established area – dozens of small, large and huge trackers and vertex detectors in operation since ’90 New development: strips in depth of sensor – 3D silicon strips Small capacitance Extra low noise, 10-100 e Could do with small signal Opens variety of interesting options 8 Andrei Nomerotski Pixel Detectors Hybrid pixels – well established for LHC Solder bump Bump bonding Sophisticated electronics Collect charge from thinner sensors use wafers with 5-25 micron epi-layer, closer to industry mainstream CMOS and CCD based detectors Collect by diffusion in reasonable time, 100 ns Readout First move charge to the side CCD Silicon Drift detectors Integrate electronics and detector – a lot of interesting recent developments 9 Andrei Nomerotski Outline New requirements for next generation machine for Particle Physics (LC and SLHC) New technologies available in industry Column Parallel CCDs Storage Pixel Detectors, ISIS Fine Pixel CCDs Chronopixels Vertical integration of sensors and electronics Silicon On Insulator DEPFET Silicon Drift Detectors System issues Silicon Tracker for ILC Material Serial Powering 10 Applications Andrei Nomerotski I will not discuss in this talk : Active Pixel Sensors (APS) Talk by Lars Eklund 3D and active edge silicon Talk by Daniel Pennicard LHC and other existing trackers / vertex detectors Multiple talks in this session Radiation hardness issues Review by Gianluigi Casse 11 Andrei Nomerotski Linear Collider : Precise Thin Detectors ILC physics demands excellent Vertexing (b,c,t) and Tracking 30% E Vertex detector characteristics point resolution 3 mm Thickness ~ 0.1 % X0 5-6 layers Inner radius ~ 1.5 cm t t event at 350 GeV d (IP) < 5 mm 10 mm/(p sin3/2 q) 12 (best SLD 8 mm 33 mm/(p sin3/2 q)) Andrei Nomerotski Linear Collider Physics Case Higgs: Model independent observation Establish mass generation mechanism SUSY Symmetry breaking mechanism Measure properties of supersymmetrical particles Precision Access to higher energy scale Will require excellent flavour ID Higgs can be reconstructed through recoil mass independently of its decay channel 13 Andrei Nomerotski b c light Flavour Identification Main motivation for vertex detector for LC Combine several variables into Neural Net Vertex mass – main contributor Vertex momentum Decay length Decay length significance Jet Probability LCFI collaboration Vertex charge Charge of tracks associated to vertex Allows to distinguish between b and anti-b quarks 14 Andrei Nomerotski The Readout Challenge LC Beam Time Structure: 0.2 s 337 ns 2820x 0.95 ms = one train What readout speed is needed? Massive e+e- background from beamstrahlung : pairs radiated in intense EM fields of bunches Need to read out once occupancy = 1% 20 times per train = 20 kHz per 1 Mpixel frame Different approaches 15 Time stamping In situ storage Rolling shatter Super-fine segmentation Andrei Nomerotski Column Parallel CCD LCFI develops CCD (Charged Coupled Device) based sensors M M N N “Classic CCD” Readout time NM/fout Column Parallel CCD Readout time = N/fout Readout time shorten by orders of magnitide Need 50 MHz clock to achieve 20 kHz / frame Main difficulty: distribution of 20 A clocks at 50 MHz 16 Andrei Nomerotski CPC2 ISIS1 CPC2-70 Busline-free CPC2 104 mm CPC2-40 LCFI CPC2-10 ● CPC2 wafer (100 .cm/25 μm epi and 1.5k.cm/50 μm epi) Second generation CPCCD sensor: CPC2 The whole image area serves as a distributed busline Designed to reach 50 MHz operation 17 Andrei Nomerotski CPCCD Testing Achieved low-noise operation at 20 MHz Used CPR2 to read out and CPD1 to drive large devices CPD1 provides 20 A clock at 50 MHz CPR2 : 128 ADC, cluster finding and sparse readout, works at 9 MHz CPD1 CPC2-40 CPR2 LCFI Pedestal peak 18 Photopeak Amplitude spectrum of 5.9 keV 55Fe X-rays at 20 MHz Andrei Nomerotski CPCCD with Low Capacitance LCFI ● New ideas to reduce high CCD capacitance ● Open phase CCD, “Pedestal Gate CCD”, “Shaped Channel CCD” ● Could reduce Cig by ~4 ● e2V Technologies produced 27 types of small CCDs to check these ideas 19 Andrei Nomerotski ISIS – In-Situ Storage Image Sensor ISIS1 “proof of principle” constructed at e2V LCFI Each pixel has internal memory implemented as CCD register Charge collected under a photogate Charge is transferred to 20-pixel storage CCD in situ Conversion to voltage and readout in the 200 ms-long quiet period after collision 20 Andrei Nomerotski ISIS Proof of Principle LCFI Tests with 55Fe X-ray source: ISIS1 with and without p-well tested Correct charge storage in 5 time slices and consequent readout Charge collection through photogate demonstrated Tested in testbeam in 2007 ISIS2 design in preparation, submission in April 2008 21 Andrei Nomerotski Fine Pixel CCD Idea: use pixel of ~5mm to keep occupancy low Fully depleted epitaxial layer to minimize the number of hit pixels due to charge spread by diffusion Accumulate hit signals for one train (1 ms) and read out between trains (200 ms) should be very robust Results for test structures: possible to deplete fully S7170 SPL24mm, highest resistivity 24mm thick epi-layer, Hamamatsu Used laser to induce signal Y. Sugimoto, KEK Projection 22 Andrei Nomerotski Next generation FPCCD 7.5 mm 12mm pixel size 24mm epitaxial layer 512x512 pixels 6.1mm2 image area 4 different design of output amp To be delivered at the end of 2007 Y. Sugimoto, KEK 8.2 mm 23 Andrei Nomerotski Integration of Sensor and Electronics 24 Andrei Nomerotski Chronopixels (MAPS type) U.Oregon, Yale, Sarnoff 25 Andrei Nomerotski What is 3D Circuit Integration? Optical Fiber In A 3D chip is comprised of several layers of semiconductor devices which have been thinned, bonded together, and interconnected to form a “monolithic” circuit. Four Key Enabling Technologies Wafer thinning (to <25mm) Precision alignment Optical Fiber O Opto Electronics Digital layer Analog Layer 50 um Sensor Layer Designer’s Dream Better than 1 micron Bonding of thinned wafers Interconnection of wafers by metal vias All possible now 26 Andrei Nomerotski 3D Integration is Future Mainstream in Industry Industry is moving toward 3D to improve circuit performance. Reduce R, L, C for higher speed Reduce chip I/O pads Provide increased functionality Reduce interconnect power and crosstalk Utilizes technology developed for Silicon-on-Insulator devices 27 Andrei Nomerotski Examples of 3D Sensor Integration 8 micron pitch, 50 micron thick oxide bonded imager (Lincoln Labs) Epoxy bonded 3D connected imager (RTI/DRS) 28 8 micron pitch DBI (oxide-metal) bonded PIN imager (Ziptronix) Andrei Nomerotski Silicon on Insulator Thin active circuit layer on an insulating substrate ~200 nm of silicon on a “buried” oxide (BOX) on a “handle” wafer. (Soitech illustration) The handle wafer can be high quality, detector grade silicon Opens the possibility of integration of electronics and fully depleted detectors in a single wafer with very fine pitch little additional processing. Important for 3D integration Active BOX Substrate (detector material) Steps for SOI wafer formation 29 Andrei Nomerotski Key Technologies for SOI/3D 1) Bonding between layers bond Oxide to oxide fusion Copper/tin bonding Polymer/adhesive bonding 2) Wafer thinning SiO 2 Grinding, lapping, etching Polymer (BCB) Cu Sn 3) Through wafer via formation and metallization Cu3Sn (eutectic bond) Direct bond interconnect With isolation Without isolation 4) High precision alignment SEM of 3 vias using Bosch process Via using oxide etch process (Lincoln Labs) 30 Andrei Nomerotski Thin Silicon After silicon is thinned to 50 micron or less it becomes flexible and eventually transparent 31 Andrei Nomerotski SOI Concept for HEP Minimal interconnects, low node capacitance not to scale High resistivity Silicon wafer, Thinned to 50100 microns R.Lipton, R.Yarema (Fermilab) Backside implanted after thinning Before frontside wafer processing Or laser annealed after processing Active edge processing 32 Andrei Nomerotski 3D Pixel Design for ILC Vertex Detector R&D program at Fermilab Goal - demonstrate ability to implement a complex pixel design with all required ILC properties in a 20 micron square pixel Previous technologies limited to very simple circuitry or large pixels 3D chip design using MIT Lincoln Labs 0.18 um SOI process. 3D density allows analog pulse height digitization, sparse readout, high resolution time stamp, all in a 20 micron pitch pixel. Time stamping and sparse readout occur in the pixel, Hit address found on array perimeter 64 x 64 pixel demonstrator version of 1k x 1K array Submitted to 3 tier DARPA multi project run at LL Sensor to be added later 33 Andrei Nomerotski 3D Geometry Pad to sensor Tier 3 Sample 1 Sample 1 Sample 2 Delay Vth S. Trig To analog output buses 5 Tier 2 Digital time stamp bus Write data Analog T.S. b0 b1 b2 b3 b4 Read data Analog ramp bus Chip designers: Tom Zimmerman Gregory Deptuch Jim Hoff Analog time output bus In Inject Test input S.R. pulse Out Y address X address D FF Data clk Tier 1 Token In Pixel skip logic Q S R Token out Read all Read data 34 Andrei Nomerotski Pixel cell Tot 175 transistors in 20x20 µm pixel 3 Tiers with tot 22 µm height Unlimited use of PMOS and NMOS Allows 100 % diode fill factor Received back in Nov 2007, testing underway Full 3D Pixel Circuit 20 um Tier 3 Tier 2 Tier 1 High resistivity substrate BOX 35 Andrei Nomerotski Depleted FET J. Kemmer & G. Lutz, 1987 DEpleted P-channel FET Row wise read-out ("rolling shutter") select row with external gate, read current, clear DEPFET, read current again the difference is the signal gate DEPFET- matrix reset off off on reset off off nxm pixel off off VGATE, ON VGATE, OFF IDRAIN drain VCLEAR, ON VCLEAR, OFF VCLEAR-Control 0 suppression output fully depleted sensitive volume, charge collection by drift internal amplification q-I conversion: 0.4 nA/e, scales with gate length and bias current Charge collection in "off" state, read out on demand 36 Andrei Nomerotski DEPFET: Noise versus bandwidth High speed readout => high bandwidth => short shaping times Thermal noise of the DEPFET transistor ~ 1/SQRT(t) 1.6 e ENC at t=10 ms 25 e ENC at t=33ns (30MHz) MPI, Germany Measurements of a single pixel with an external high bandwidth amplifier. 37 Andrei Nomerotski DEPFET Testbeam MPI, Germany Pixel size 36 x 28.5 mm2 Timing 320 nsec S/N = 110 Resolution 2 mm 38 Andrei Nomerotski Silicon Drift Detectors p+ segmentation on both sides of silicon Complete depletion of wafer from segmented n+ anodes on one side Distance measured by drift time Small load capacitance – excellent noise performance Position resolution 2 mm in lab, 10 mm in testbeam, 30 mm in experiments Applications SDD fully functioning in STAR SVT since 2001, will be used by ALICE (1.3 m2) 39 Andrei Nomerotski Controlled Drift Detector Channel stops confine charge to parallel drifting channels Potential minimum near top surface Control of drift field: “integrate-readout” modes Similar to CCD but charge moved by constant field Drift time 1-2 ms/cm 20 mm in 2-4 ns CPCCD 20 mm in 20 ns 40 Andrei Nomerotski CDD Results Produced prototypes with 6.1 mm drift length Compton electron and other types of imaging with excellent position and timing resolution Design of 10.2 mm long drift detector (1x3 cm2 total area) in progress (COMPTON, INFN Milano) 41 Andrei Nomerotski System Issues 42 Andrei Nomerotski Silicon Tracker for ILC 43 Andrei Nomerotski Silicon Tracker for ILC Modules overlap to eliminate projective cracks Sensors are ~92mm on a side Each sensor has is readout independently by KPIX chip Bump bonded directly to sensor 0.2 x 0.5 mm2 readout cells T.Nelson, SLAC 4 layer Cu / kapton cable that carries power, signals, and bias 44 Andrei Nomerotski Thinning Technology at MPI Semiconductor Laboratory 1) Process backside of thick detector wafer (structured) implant. sensor wafer handle wafer sensor wafer 2) Bond detector wafer on handle wafer (SOI). sensor wafer 1. implant backside on sensor wafer 3) Thin detector wafer to desired thickness (grinding & etching). handle wafer HLL sensor wafer 1. implant backside on sensor wafer 2. bond sensor wafer to handle wafer 1. implant backside on sensor wafer handle wafer 2. bond sensor wafer to handle wafer 2. bondHLL sensor wafer to handle wafer 3. thin Industry: sensor side Trac to desired thickness Industry: TraciT, Grenoble 3. thin sensor side to desired thickness 4) Process front side of the detector wafer in a standard (single sided) process line. handle wafer HLL Industry: TraciT, Grenoble sensor wafer 1. implant backside on sensor wafer 2. bond sensor wafer to handle wafer 3. thin sensor side to desired thickness 5) Etch handle wafer. If necessary: Al-contactsIndustry: TraciT, Grenoble handleadd HLLwafer Leave frame for stiffening and handling, if wanted 1. implant backside on sensor wafer 45 2. bond sensor wafer to handle wafer 3. thin sensor side to desired thickness 4. process DEPFETs on top side 4. process DEPFETs on top side HLL main lab 4. process DEPFETs on top side 5. structure resist, etch backside up to oxide/implant HLL main lab HLL special lab 5. structure resist, etch backside up to oxide/implant Andrei Nomerotski Thinning : mechanical samples 6” wafer with diodes and large mechanical samples Thinned area: 10cm x 1.2 cm (ILC vertex detector dummy) Possibility to structure handling frame (reduce material, keep stiffness) 46 Andrei Nomerotski Mechanics: Foams Goal : 0.1% X0 Properties: Open-cell foam Macroscopically uniform No tensioning needed Good results with 3% RVC (Reticulated Vitreous Carbon) prototype Also: Silicon Carbide foam LCFI 47 Andrei Nomerotski Power Distribution Power is a crucial issue for the vertex detector CP CCD 20 amps x 200 modules = 4000 amps of clock MAPS or SOI 20-100W x 100(DF)@1V = 2000 - 10,000 amps Vertex detector technology is sexy - but power engineering is just as important Serial powering (think Xmas lights) can lower instantaneous current Understand noise, engineer regulators, understand interconnects Or/and DC-DC converters Lower CCD capacitance Routing in and out Include something capable of providing 2-10kW in simulation 48 Andrei Nomerotski Serial Power Atlas SLHC design but applicable elsewhere Initial tests indicate good noise performance • Instantaneous power = average power x (50-100) 20W ave.=>2kW • At 1.5 V peak current ~666 A, 3 cm diam. of copper/side needed for 50mV drop • Serial powering can reduce peak currents – Requires individual ladder regulators (3D integrated?) – V*n, I/n, V tolerances relaxed with local regulation 49 Andrei Nomerotski DC-DC Converters 50 Andrei Nomerotski Applications 51 Andrei Nomerotski X-Rays in Silicon Visible photon range few mm 20keV X-ray range 5 mm 100 keV X-ray range 80 mm For larger energies need different materials (higher Z) 6 keV X-rays, 1 ms exposure time (Cornell) Appl. Phys. Lett. 83 (2003) 1671 52 Andrei Nomerotski MAMBO - Monolithic Active pixel Matrix with Binary cOunters in SOI Technology OKI 0.15µm Counting pixel detector with integrated readout for X-ray or electron microscope imaging Similar to Medipix but monolithic 64x64 26x26 mm pixels 12-bit counter, 1 MHz 350 mm thick sensor total: 280 transistors First version produced and tested in 2007 good separate performance of analogue and digital parts Second version submitted to OKI G.Deptuch, Fermilab 26 x 26 mm2 53 Andrei Nomerotski Preservation of Mechanical Recording Disc: groove moves from side to side Audio is encoded in micron scale features which are >100 meters long • Used ATLAS silicon module survey camera for scanning • Software filters out noise 54 Andrei Nomerotski Summary Tracking and Vertexing by precise silicon detectors is a mature field Ramping up efforts on integration of detectors and electronics Is it a ladder for a future vertex detector? Ladder ? 55 Andrei Nomerotski