InducedTransfer

Description

Combines individual sets of propagated charges together to a set of charges on the sensor pixels by calculating the total induced charge during their drift on neighboring pixels by calculating the difference in weighting potential. This module requires a propagation of both electrons and holes in order to produce sensible results and only works in the presence of a weighting potential.

The induced charge on neighboring pixel implants is defined the Shockley-Ramo theorem [@shockley, @ramo] as the difference in weighting potential between the end position $x_{final}$ retrieved from the PropagatedCharge and the initial position $x_{initial}$ of the charge carrier obtained from the DepositedCharge object in the history. The total induced charge is calculated by multiplying the potential difference with the charge of the carrier, viz.

The resulting induced charge is summed for all propagated charge carriers and returned as a PixelCharge object. The number of neighboring pixels taken into account can be configured using the distance parameter.

Parameters

• distance: Maximum distance of pixels to be considered for current induction, calculated from the pixel the charge carrier under investigation is below. A distance of 1 for example means that the induced current for the closest pixel plus all neighbors is calculated. It should be noted that the time required for simulating a single event depends almost linearly on the number of pixels the induced charge is calculated for. Usually, for Cartesian sensors a 3x3 grid (9 pixels, distance 1) should suffice since the weighting potential at a distance of more than one pixel pitch often is small enough to be neglected while the simulation time is almost tripled for distance = 2 (5x5 grid, 25 pixels). To just calculate the induced current in the one pixel the charge carrier is below, distance = 0 can be used. Defaults to 1.

Usage

[InducedTransfer]
distance = 1