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The changes in signal for a radiation-sensitive metal–oxide–semiconductor-field-effect transistor (RADFET, also known as MOS dosimeter), upon detection of H-Lys(Ac)-OH.HCl Supplier induced charges, is intrinsically amplified due to the field effect operation mechanism. RADFET based SSD have been touted as a direct conversion architecture for efficient dosimetry since 1974 [10]. Most of these RADFETs operate through radiation induced charge trapping in the gate oxide and at the oxide/semiconductor interface, resulting in a flat-band/threshold voltage shift and change in capacitance/current. Price et al. [11] reported MOS dosimeters where both active and passive neutron dosimetry were explored for different neutron active converter layers within the device structure. Upon incorporation of a neutron converter material, the reported devices exhibited enhanced sensitivity to neutrons by almost a factor of 3 when compared to a control sample without the converter layer. The viability of RADFETs as effective dosimeters suffers from problems pertaining to its low charge storage capacity and non-reusability. These issues can be overcome by embedding a plate floating gate within the gate dielectric (floating-gate-metal–oxide–semiconductor dosimeter, FGMOSD) [12]. The incorporation of a plate floating gate could enhance charge storage capacity leading to improvements in the dynamic range and detection limit of the dosimeter. The FGMOSD may also be recycled by electrically or optically erasing the trapped charges [12]. The FGMOSD does have several limitations. Neutron sensitivity is sacrificed to maintain an optimal gate dielectric thickness. Furthermore, poor charge retention characteristics during measurement sweeps and vulnerability to environmental light exposure make the FGMOSD unrealistic for practical use in complex environments and ex-situ operation. A discrete floating gate with better charge retention capability instead of the plate-floating gate could lead to improvements in the FGMOSD design. FGMOSDs with ultra-small size (sub-2nm) metal nanoparticles (NPs) as floating gate and its role in improving charge retention remains unexplored. We have previously reported the charge retention properties of the silicon-based non-volatile memory with multi-Pt NP layers as floating gates [13,14]. These memory devices can hold more than 85% of the original charge for ten years (3×108s), which is much longer than the 105s (drops to 0%) retention time of conventional floating gate memory [15]. In this study, we report a neutron detector with 10B-enriched dielectric and embedded sub-2nm Pt NP FGMOSD. Here, we focus on studying the novelty of this sub-2nm Pt NP embedded neutron detector and the investigation of its principal operation. In this system, the neutron conversion layer acts as a dielectric sandwiched between the Si and the metal gate, thereby, making it an active part of the device [7]. Thermal neutrons absorbed by 10B produce 7Li(1.015MeV)+4He(1.777MeV) with a branching ratio of 94% and 7Li(0.84MeV)+4He(1.470MeV)+0.482MeV gamma ray with a branching ratio of 6% [16]. The 7Li and 4He are charged particles with a traversing range of 2.7–3.0μm and 5.1–6.4μm in decaborane (B10H14) respectively [17]. A detection event occurs when a decelerating charged particle upon neutron capture creates electron–hole pairs in (or close to) the converter region of the radiation sensor. The neutron detector described in this paper couples a boron containing dielectric layer with dual Pt NP embedded layer to convert neutrons to charge carriers and retain generated charges for usable signal transduction through ex-situ characterization. We address the challenge of e–h separation in the dialectic layer by embedding sub-2nm Pt NPs as charge trapping centers within the dielectric layer of the MOSCAP architecture. Both single and dual Pt NP layer embedded architectures, with varying electron addition energies, were tested in this study. A single Pt NP layer embedded in the dielectric layer has a lower electron addition energy (both Coulomb Blockade Energy and Quantum Confinement Energy) and displays significant charge loss from direct tunneling. The captured charges for single Pt NP layer device may also be removed, for example, due to photon-assisted tunneling during ex-situ measurement. A dual Pt NP layer embedded structures aimed to resolve the issue mentioned above is also studied. The higher charge addition energy and charge storage capability in dual Pt NP layer embedded structures makes the device more sensitive to neutron induced high energy charges while maintaining resistant to the environmental photon-assisted tunneling. This improvement is achieved through the combination of strong Coulombic interaction between the first (0.5nm) and second (1.1nm) Pt NP embedded layers, as well as the larger charge storage capability of the second Pt NP embedded layer.