SolidStateDetectors.jl

SolidStateDetectors.jl is a Julia package for fast 2D and 3D simulation of Solid State Detectors.

• Installation
• • Visualization / Plotting (Optional)
  • GPU Support in Field Calculations

• Configuration Files
• • Example Configuration Files
  • General Structure
  • Splitting Configuration Files

• Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)
• • Volume Primitives
  • Boolean operators
  • Transformations

• Grids
• • DiscreteAxis
  • Grid Initialization
  • Grid Refinement

• Electric Potential
• • Simulation Algorithm
  • Impurity Densities
  • Charge Densities

• Electric Field

• Charge Drift
• • Charge Drift Models
  • Group Effects

• Weighting Potentials
• • Simulation Algorithm

• Capacitances

• IO
• • Saving output with JLD2
  • Saving output with HDF5

• Plotting
• • Detector Plots
  • Scalar Potential Plots
  • Electric Field Plots
  • Event Plots

Citing SolidStateDetectors.jl

When using SolidStateDetectors.jl for research, teaching or similar, please cite the paper.

@article{Abt:2021SSD,
  author        = {Abt, I. and Fischer, F. and Hagemann, F. and Hauertmann, L. and Schulz, O. and Schuster, M. and Zsigmond, A. J.},
  title         = {Simulation of semiconductor detectors in 3D with SolidStateDetectors.jl},
  year          = {2021},
  month         = {8},
  journal       = {Journal of Instrumentation},
  publisher     = {{IOP} Publishing},
  volume        = {16},
  number        = {08},
  pages         = {P08007},
  doi           = {10.1088/1748-0221/16/08/p08007},
  url           = {https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/16/08/p08007}
}