Energy for Electron-Hole Pair Generation in Silicon by <span class="aps-inline-formula"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mi>α</mi></math></span> Particles

G. Fabri; E. Gatti; V. Svelto

doi:10.1103/PhysRev.131.134

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Energy for Electron-Hole Pair Generation in Silicon by $α$ Particles

G. Fabri, E. Gatti^*, and V. Svelto

Laboratori CISE, Milano, Italy

^*Laboratori CISE and Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.

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Phys. Rev. 131, 134 – Published 1 July, 1963

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.131.134

Abstract

The mean energy $ε_{\infty}$ for electron-hole pair generation in silicon by $α$ particles has been measured at different temperatures. For a given temperature, this value has been obtained by extrapolating to infinite collecting electric field the actual data at various finite fields. The experimental values are reported as a function of the forbidden energy gap, and compared with a theoretical expression due to Shockley.

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[c1] K. G. McKay and K. B. Mc Afee, Phys. Rev. 91, 1079 (1953)

[c2] V. M. Patskevich, V. S. Vavilov, and L. S. Smirnov, Zh. Eksperim. i Teor. Fiz. 33, 804 (1957) [translation: Soviet Phys.—JETP 6, 619 (1958)]

[c3] M. L. Halbert and J. L. Blankenship, Nucl. Instr. Methods 8, 106 (1960)

[c4] L. Koch, J. Messier, and J. Valin, Nat. Acad. Sci.-Nat. Res. Council, Publ. 871, 52 (1961)

[c5] E. Baldinger, W. Czaja, and J. Gutmann, Helv. Phys. Acta 35, 559 (1962)

[c6] G. Fabri, E. Gatti, and V. Svelto, Nucl. Instr. Methods 15, 237 (1962)

[c7] J. B. Gunn, in Progress in Semiconductors, edited by A. F. Gibson (Heywood and Company Ltd., London, 1957), Vol. 2, p. 211

[c8] R. A. Smith, Semiconductors (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1959), p. 352

[c9] W. Shockley, Czech. J. Phys. B11, 81 (1961)

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