Investigation of the switching and carrier recombination characteristics in the proton irradiated and thermally annealed Si PIN diodes

Results of comparative study of deep level transient spectroscopy and of reverse recovery time (τRR) of PIN diodes with δand triangle-shape radiation defect distribution profiles are presented.FZ silicon PIN diodes were irradiated by varying proton fluence in the range of 10 13 -10 15 p/cm 2 and keeping fixed or gradually changing protons energy in the range of 2-2.7 MeV to introduce different profiles of radiation defects.Variations of the functional characteristics of PIN diodes containing different density of radiation defects and their distribution profiles are compared.Isochronous 24 h annealings in the temperature range of 80-400 • C have been performed in order to suppress the detrimental carrier generation centres.