Volume 2, Issue 2

Original research papers

Radiation Detectors

CHARACTERISTICS OF 1.6 MeV PROTON-IRRADIATED GaN-BASED SENSORS

Dovile Meskauskaite, Eugenijus Gaubas, Tomas Ceponis, Jevgenij Pavlov, Vytautas Rumbauskas

Pages: 118-123

DOI: 10.21175/RadJ.2017.02.025

Received: 10 FEB 2017, Received revised: 27 APR 2017, Accepted: 20 JUN 2017, Published online: 28 OCT 2017

High response speed sensors made of thin GaN-based structures can be important for the optical readout of the radiation signals in harsh radiation environment at hadron accelerator facilities. In this work, the metal-semiconductor-metal structure sensors formed on the MOCVD grown GaN heterostructures have been studied. The proton-induced luminescence (PI-L) and the BELIV (barrier evaluation by linearly increasing voltage) transients have simultaneously been recorded during 1.6 MeV proton irradiation emitted by a Tandetron type accelerator. The PI-L and BELIV measurements allowed for tracing the evolution of the parameters of recombination. The radiation damage on GaN-based sensors has been examined by capacitance-voltage (C-V) and deep-level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) methods. The dominant radiation defects introduced by 1.6 MeV proton beam have been unveiled.
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