Recent developments in silicon radiation detectors at IRST

In the last few years, the Institute for Research, Science and Technology (IRST) has been involved in a research program, supported by the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), aimed at setting up the technological capabilities for the production of double-sided silicon detectors for high energy physics experiments. We report on the most relevant achievements of this R&D activity, with emphasis on some recent results from the development of detectors oriented to ALICE (a large ion collider experiment) and ATLAS (a toroidal LHC apparatus) experiments at LHC. (14 refs).