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Physical modeling of silicon microstrip detectors: influence of the electrode geometry on critical electric fields
No full textIn this paper, a computer-based analysis of AC-coupled silicon microstrip detectors is presented. The study aims at investigating the main geometrical parameters responsible for potentially critical effects, such as early micro-discharges and breakdown phenomena. The adoption of CAD tools allows for evaluating the actual field distribution within the device, and makes it possible to identify critical regions. The adoption of overhanging metal strips is shown to have a positive impact on the electric field distribution, reducing corner effects and thus minimizing breakdown risk
Analysis and test of overhanging-metal microstrip detectors
No full textThe adoption of overhanging-metal contacts have been suggested as an effective mean to limit breakdown risks in heavy-damaged, high-voltage biased microstrip detectors. In this summary, the influence of such overhangs on device noise parameters is analyzed, with particular reference to the interstrip capacitance. Data have been collected on a set of detectors featuring variable overhang extensions and different width/pitch ratios, and numerical simulation has been exploited to provide physical interpretation of the experimental findings. In particular, the non-trivial dependence of interstrip capacitance over geometrical parameters is discussed. By looking at leakage currents and charge-collection as well, it is shown that limited-extension overhangs still have highly beneficial effects on the breakdown properties, while having no practical drawbacks on the detector performanc
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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