A charge sharing study of silicon microstrip detectors with electrical characterization and SPICE simulation

Abstract Silicon microstrip detectors with floating strips have nonuniform charge collection efficiency. This nonuniformity depends on the incident position and incident angle and should be corrected during charge reconstruction. A novel charge reconstruction algorithm, called the charge sharing algorithm, is introduced to correct this nonuniformity. This algorithm assumes that the nonuniformity in charge collection efficiency is due to charge sharing through the capacitors and resistors of silicon microstrip detectors. This charge sharing assumption is tested in this paper using electrical characterization and SPICE simulation.