RADIATION EFFECTS TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

Future NSREC Conference Plans

Janet Barth of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is the 2006 Conference General Chairman. Janet has selected Ponte Vedra Beach, near Jacksonville, Florida, as the conference site. This location is ideal for golfers, as well as those who love beaches or historical sites. Janet has an excellent conference committee in place and we anticipate another successful NSREC.
The 2007 NSREC will be held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. Lloyd Massengill of Vanderbilt University, Conference General Chairman, is well along in organizing an excellent conference. This will be the first NSREC to be held in Hawaii and it will take place at the premier conference site on the island of Oahu.
The amount of lead time required to plan a conference is increasing and it currently takes more than three years to plan each NSREC. Paul Dodd of Sandia Labs is the 2008 Conference General Chair; he is currently considering sites for the conference and will host the spring meeting of the RESG at the site he proposes.

Radiation Effects Award

Nominations are currently being accepted for the 2005 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Radiation Effects Award. The purpose of the award is to recognize individuals who have had a sustained history of outstanding and innovative technical and/or leadership contributions to the radiation effects community. The $2000 cash award and plaque will be presented at the IEEE NSREC in Seattle, Washington, July 11-15, 2005.
Nomination forms are available electronically at http://www.nsrec.com/nominate.htm. Nominations must be submitted by March 18, 2005.
Additional information can be obtained from Gary Lum, Senior Member-at-Large for the Radiation Effects Steering Group. Gary Lum can be reached at 408-756-0120.

Member at Large

Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois of the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA) was elected Junior-Member-at-Large of the Radiation Effects Steering Group during the annual Open Meeting at the 2004 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC). Véronique has thirteen years of experience in research and development related to radiation effects on SOI and bulk CMOS technologies. She joined the CEA, Centre de Bruyères-le-Châtel, in 1991 to work on the experimental and simulation analysis of several generations of technologies developed for military and space applications. Her field of interest also extends to the high frequency characterization and modelling of SOI devices. She is currently working on the radiation sensitivity of highly integrated 40 nm-SOI technologies with different architectures, single or multi-gate devices. Since 2001, Véronique is responsible for research programs to develop hardened circuits based on SOI technologies for CEA systems.
Véronique graduated from l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique et de Radioelectricité de Grenoble (ENSERG), France in 1990. She has published more than 70 international papers, and received several awards and recognition for her work.
We welcome Véronique to the RESG!
Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois can be reached at CEA, BP-12, Bruyères, Le Châtel 91680 FRANCE; Phone +331 69264265; Fax: +331 69267115; E-mail: ferlet@bruyeres.cea.fr.

Outstanding and Meritorious Papers
2004 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference

The Awards Committee for the 2004 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference, chaired by Dave Beutler, Sandia National Labs, completed the evaluation of technical papers presented at the Conference, with the following results.
The Outstanding Conference Paper was given to the paper entitled:
“Production and Propagation of Single-Event Transients in High-Speed Digital Logic ICs,” by Paul E. Dodd, Marty R. Shaneyfelt, James A. Felix, and James R. Schwank (Sandia National Laboratories).
The two Meritorious Papers are:
Charge Enhancement Effect in NMOS Bulk Transistors Induced by Heavy Ion Irradiation—Comparison With SOI, by V. Ferlet-Cavrois (CEA/DIF), G. Vizkelethy (Sandia National Laboratories), P. Paillet, A. Torres (CEA/DIF), J. R. Schwank, M. R. Shaneyfelt (Sandia National Laboratories), J. Baggio (CEA/DIF), J. du Port de Pontcharra and L. Tosti (CEA LETI).
Issues for Single-Event Proton Testing of SRAMs, by J. R. Schwank, P. E. Dodd, M. R. Shaneyfelt, J. A. Felix, G. L. Hash (Sandia National Laboratories), V. Ferlet-Cavrois, P. Paillet, J. Baggio (CEA/DIF), P. Tangyunyong (Sandia National Laboratories), and E. Blackmore (TRIUMF).
The NSREC Awards Committee has selected a Radiation Effects Data Workshop presentation for recognition. This year the paper selected as Outstanding Radiation Effects Data Workshop Presentation is:
Effect of Passivation on the Enhanced Low Dose Rate Sensitivity (ELDRS) of National LM124 Operational Amplifiers, by John E. Seiler, Gary W. Dunham, Dale G. Platteter (NAVSEA Crane), Ron L. Pease (RLP Research), Michael C. Maher (National Semiconductor Corporation), and Marty R. Shaneyfelt (Sandia National Laboratories).