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Proceedings Article | 7 April 2023 Presentation + Paper

Charge collection efficiency of CdTe detectors: impact of charge collection time and polarisation

Maxime Daniel, Mats Danielsson, Brian Yanoff, Mats Persson

Proceedings Volume 12463, 124630H (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2653872

KEYWORDS: Polarization, Electric fields, Electrons, Distortion, Electrodes, Monte Carlo methods, Modeling, X-ray computed tomography, Photon transport, Photodetectors

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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) is one of the materials used in photon-counting detectors for x-ray computed tomography. One challenge with this material is that it is susceptible to polarisation due to holes being trapped in impurities in the material. This can potentially lead to the buildup of bulk charge in the semiconductor, causing decreased charge collection efficiency and degraded energy resolution.

In this work, we develop a simulation model of CdTe detectors with polarisation and use it to study the effect of polarisation on the measured energy spectrum for different charge collection times. To this end, we use a theoretical model of charge buildup to find the critical charge in the detector’s bulk above which the detector can be considered completely polarised. We then simulate a 320-by-270-by-1600 μm CdTe detector used in CT clinical imaging, for varying degrees of polarisation (ratio between the actual charge and the critical charge) and charge collection time. Our results show that the measured spectrum gets heavily distorted for large degrees of polarisation or for short charge collection time. We also put these results in context by discussing how they relate to the critical fluence rate and the time of flight of the charge carriers. These results can lead to improved simulation models of CdTe detectors and a better understanding the factors affecting their imaging performance.

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