eprintid: 32043
rev_number: 17
eprint_status: archive
userid: 6775
dir: disk0/00/03/20/43
datestamp: 2022-08-16 09:23:54
lastmod: 2022-09-01 12:43:00
status_changed: 2022-08-16 09:23:54
type: doctoralThesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Keller, Michael
title: Design and low temperature characterization of low noise single photon
detector arrays for rare event search experiments with liquid noble gases
subjects: ddc-530
divisions: i-130001
divisions: i-720000
adv_faculty: af-13
abstract: Dark matter search experiments, with liquid noble gas targets, require a detector with a low noise
and a high VUV-light sensitivity. Within this thesis it was evaluate whether Digital SiPMs are a
suitable candidate. For this, a test-array was developed and characterized at low temperatures.
The advantage of digital SiPMs is that Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPAD) are manufactured
in a CMOS process so that the readout logic can be placed on the same chip. The output signals
are digital, and no readout chip is required, as in the case with common SiPMs. The test array was
optimized for a high-fill-factor and possesses a low-power data-driven readout. It houses SPADs
of different geometries, to investigate the noise as a function of size and shape. Furthermore,
optimizations for the SPAD noise at cold temperatures, were made. At low temperatures of
T = 165 K a dark count rate independent of the geometry of 0.02 Hz per mm2 of active area,
was observed. An optimal SPAD size was found, for which the fill-factor is 74% when the noisy
SPADs are turned off and, finally, a power dissipation of some ∼2 m W was observed. Based on
this, a high fill-factor array with a data-driven readout was developed.
date: 2022
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00032043
ppn_swb: 1815489847
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-320431
date_accepted: 2022-07-26
advisor: HASH(0x55e0f7de13b8)
language: eng
bibsort: KELLERMICHDESIGNANDL20220801
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
citation:   Keller, Michael  (2022) Design and low temperature characterization of low noise single photon detector arrays for rare event search experiments with liquid noble gases.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/32043/1/DissertationMKeller.pdf