Abstract:
It has been well-documented that the aerospace community has had difficulty in obtaining sufficient access hours to perform SEE testing1. The increase in number of “small” and less risk-adverse projects and the associated rise in the use of electronics not necessarily designed for space utilization are primary factors for the limited hours available at SEE test sites being well...
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Radiation hardness qualification procedures for electronic and microelectronic components as well as systems and boards often require testing at facilities – providing highly energetic protons, heavy ions, neutrons, electrons, gammas and to some extent pulsed X-rays, lasers, etc. – emulating the radiation effects of the devices under test close to reality. These probing radiations...
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HollandPTC is a proton therapy facility for patient treatments and research located in Delft, The Netherlands. HollandPTC has a dedicated R&D proton beamline for preclinical research. In this presentation, we summarize how an experimental setup for radiation hardness tests was integrated in our R&D proton beamline. In 2021, in collaboration with ESA, the beamline was equipped,...
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Proton and heavy ion microprobes with beam sizes of 1 µm or less offer unique possibilities for radiation hardness testing. Using a microbeam at low count rate (10 to 1000 s-1), individual effects of single particles can be separated and correlated with the actual position of the beam. By scanning the beam across a microstructured sample the charge collection efficiency and/or...
