Supporters include the Defense Threat Reduction
Agency, Sandia National Laboratories, Air Force Research Laboratory, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, and NASA-Goddard. The 2002 IEEE International Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference will be held July 15-19 in Phoenix, Arizona at the Pointe South Mountain Resort. The Conference features a technical program consisting of eight to ten sessions of contributed papers describing the latest observations in radiation effects, a Short Course on radiation effects offered on July 15, a Radiation Effects Data Workshop, and an Industrial Exhibit. The technical program includes oral and poster sessions.
Supporters include the Defense Threat Reduction
Agency, Sandia National Laboratories, Air Force Research Laboratory, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, and NASA-Goddard.
Papers describing nuclear and space radiation effects on electronic and photonic materials, devices, circuits, sensors, and systems, as well as semiconductor processing technology and techniques for producing radiation-tolerant (hardened) devices and integrated circuits, will be presented at this meeting of engineers, scientists, and managers. International participation is strongly encouraged.
We are soliciting papers describing significant new findings in the following or related areas:
The Radiation Effects Data Workshop is a forum for papers on radiation effects data on electronic devices and systems.Workshop papers are intended to provide radiation response data to scientists and engineers who use electronic devices in a radiation environment, and for designers of radiation-hardened systems. Papers describing new simulation or radiation facilities are also welcomed.
Information on submission of summaries to the 2002 IEEE NSREC can be found at www.nsrec.com. The deadline for submitting summaries is February 1, 2002.
Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a high-quality one-day short course on Monday, July 15. We are currently in the process of putting together what we believe will be an excellent and unusual Short Course. It will be a cohesive set of four talks covering the issues involved in radiation effects for space systems, from the characteristics of the radiation environment on through how one assures that a satellite will actually work as desired in that environment.It will lay a foundation of basic background material and build upon that to discuss some of the advanced technologies and approaches coming into use.
The 2002 Short Course will start with a discussion of the space environment.Our first speaker, Joe Mazur of the Aerospace Corporation, will describe the hazards of the space environment, what creates the environment and how one measures it, how it varies with time and position, and how one translates that external environment into what components within the satellite will experience. Jim Schwank of Sandia National Laboratories will then describe the effects of total dose on different device technologies. He will first describe the basic mechanisms for total dose damage, beginning with the traditional understanding of positive charge and interface trap buildup and moving on to recent concerns such as radiation-induced leakage current and microdosimetry effects. He will then use this understanding of damage mechanisms to discuss how total dose damage affects various device technologies. The third session will be taught by Todd Weatherford of the Naval Postgraduate School, who will discuss single event effects beginning with their underlying mechanisms on through their effects on devices. This has been an area of great interest at the Conference, and this talk will help place much of the work in the field into perspective. It will also include some educational animations of simulations of single ion strikes on different device structures. Finally, our Short Course will conclude with a session by Christian Poivey of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, who will tie all the talks of the short course together with a discussion of how one performs hardness assurance. He will cover this topic not only at the device level, but also describe what is done at the system level so that the electronics system in a satellite actually will perform as desired in the environment of space.
General Chair: Ken Hunt
Vanderbilt U. at AF Research Laboratory, 505-84-4959
Technical Program: Tom Turflinger
NAVSEA Crane, 812-854-1670
Local Arrangements: Jeff Black
Mission Research Corp, 505-768-7709
Short Course: Paul Dressendorfer
Sandia National Laboratories, 505-844-5373
Publicity: Teresa Farris
Aeroflex UTMC, 719-594-8035
Finance: Steve Bernacki
Raytheon Company, 617-258-2696
Awards: Gary Lum
Lockheed Martin, 408-756-0120
Industrial Exhibits: Chuck Tabbert
Peregrine Semiconductor, 321-432-9380
Guest Editor: Steve Witczak
Sandia National Laboratories, 505-284-5179