Laboratory for Synchrotron Radiation Detectors

Project objective: 

1. Performing fundamental research of the radiation resistance of semiconductor materials and structures with complex compositions based on gallium arsenide modified with admixtures with deep levels in the process of epitaxy and diffusion.
2. Developing the fundamental basics of the technology of the production of radiation-resistant materials and semiconductor structures based on original HR-GaAs:Cr diffusional and epitaxial layers and doped metal-oxide compounds.
3. Developing the fundamentals of technologies of radiation-resistant multielement sensors capable of registering the coordinates and energies of single quants of synchrotron radiation with a low latency and a high spatial resolution.
4. Researching the laws of the radiation hardness of detector structures and multichannel detectors based on neutrons and a beam of charged particles.
5. Developing a design and a technology for Russian fast digital application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) for channel-by-channel conversion of the energy of quants to digital code, processing data from a multichannel radiation-resistant sensor with a distribution between specified subranges of the energies of the registered quants of synchrotron radiation.
6. Developing a technology for forming contact bumps with a high heterogeneity in terms of height and a technology for channel-by-channel «flip-chip» assembly of a multichannel sensor with ASIC sensory chips.
7. Developing the fundamentals of the physics of interaction between detector structures, matrix and microstrip detectors and synchrotron radiation, substantiation of the use of achieved results in various domains of science., medicine and industry.
8. Researching the limits of the radiation resistance of multichannel HR-GaAs:Cr detectors.
9. Testing multichannel detectors in ion beams to determine the spatio-temporal characteristics and the spectral characteristics of the detectors.
10. Developing the fundamentals of the digital imaging of various objects and dynamic processes with a high spatial resolution.
11. Developing the fundamentals of the physics of interaction between multielement detectors and synchrotron radiation at the Russian fourth-plus generation facility SKIF attaining a micro- and nanoscopic structure of images of the real object.
12. Researching the fundamentals of physics and creating a technology of radiation-resistant coordinate detectors for physical experiments at the International Linear Collider (ILC), the charm-tau factory (Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences), СЕРС (China PR), FCC (CERN).