Abstract

In this work, the thermally stimulated current (TSC) technique has been used to investigate the properties of the radiation-induced interstitial boron and interstitial oxygen defect complex by 23-GeV (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$E_{\text {kin}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) protons, including activation energy, defect concentration, as well as the annealing behavior. At first isothermal annealing (at 80 &#x00B0;C for 0&#x2013;180 min) followed by isochronal annealing (for 15 min between 100 &#x00B0;C and 190 &#x00B0;C in steps of 10 &#x00B0;C), studies had been performed in order to get information about the thermal stability of the interstitial boron and interstitial oxygen defect in 50-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula>cm material after irradiation with 23-GeV protons to a fluence of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$6.91\times 10^{13}\,\,{\text {p/cm}^{2}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. The results are presented and discussed. Furthermore, the extracted data from TSC measurements are compared with the macroscopic properties derived from current&#x2013;voltage and capacitance&#x2013;voltage characteristics. In addition, the introduction rate of interstitial boron and interstitial oxygen defect as a function of the initial doping concentration was determined by exposing diodes with different resistivities (10, 50, 250, and 2 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{k}\Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula>cm) to 23-GeV protons. These results are compared with data from TSC and deep-level transient spectroscopy measurements achieved by the team of the CERN-RD50 &#x201C;Acceptor removal project.&#x201D

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