Conveners
Session 4 - Alternative Testing Methods
- Ruben Garcia Alia (CERN)
Description
This session sheds new light on alternative and emerging testing methods, such as lasers, monoenergetic beams and pulsed X-rays.
Pulsed x-rays have been demonstrated as a powerful tool that is complementary and supplementary to energetic particle and pulsed laser SEE testing. This talk will address the application of pulsed x-rays for SEE testing of microelectronic devices. Advantages and limitations of x-ray SEE testing will be discussed. The current test setup at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National...
Pulsed-laser approaches have demonstrated to be a very interesting tool for SEE testing and offers a great complementarity to heavy ions. This talk will address the basic mechanisms for laser charge generation in semiconductor materials and review the various SEE analyses for which laser testing can have an interest. Several applications performed at Airbus Defence and Space are detailed.
At the accelerator facility PIAF of Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), proton and deuteron beams are used to produce monoenergetic neutron fields in open geometry (full solid angle) in a low scatter hall using various nuclear reactions. The energy range of the monoenergetic neutron fields ranges from 140 keV to 19 MeV with a gap between 8 MeV and 14 MeV where no monoenergetic neutron...
Laser testing offers an exciting opportunity for the impact of the natural space radiation environment on electronic components to be assessed in your own lab or workshop, without waiting for beam time and travelling to a remote facility. The value of laser testing for radiation tolerant product development and the screening of COTS parts is becoming appreciated ever more widely. When...
