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Fred Sexton,
2005 Conference General Chairman, summarized some statistics from
the 2005 conference. A total of 595 people attended the technical
sessions, the short course, or both. In addition, we registered
63 people for the exhibits, for a grand total of 658 attendees.
The technical sessions were very strong, with 145 papers presented
during the 4 -day conference (51 orals, 62 posters, 32 data workshop)
and four 90-minute presentations during the short course. International
attendance (led by France with 26 and Japan with 10) was 84, an
increase of 11 over 2004 attendance. U.S. attendance reached 511,
the highest since the mid 1990s, with the largest numbers of attendees
coming from California (131), New Mexico (56), Virginia (42), Maryland
(32), Washington (30), and Tennessee (26).
Janet Barth, 2006 Conference General Chairman, announced that the
Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference will be held on July
17-21, 2006, at the Marriott Sawgrass Resort in Ponte Vedra Beach,
Florida. The Technical Program Chairman will be Gary Lum from Lockheed-Martin.
Robert Reed of Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Space
and Defense Electronics is organizing the tutorial Short Course.
Once again, NSREC 2006 is planning a Poster Session (chaired by
Hugh Barnaby of Arizona State University), a Radiation Effects Data
Workshop (chaired by David Hiemstra of MD Robotics) and an Industrial
Exhibit (chaired by Richard Elmhurst of Honeywell). Nick van Vonno
of Intersil is handling local arrangements and assembling the social
program, which will be highlighted by a social featuring foods from
the various regions of Florida.
We continue to look for ways to encourage NPSS membership among
the members of our community. As we have in recent years, we distributed
a QuickTime video recording of the previous year’s Short Course
on CDROM (playable on your Mac or PC), and provided this CD to each
NPSS member who attended. We encouraged our NPSS members to show
this Short Course video to their non-NPSS colleagues. Tim Holman
of Vanderbilt University leads this effort.
Minutes from the REC Open Meeting are available at www.nsrec.com.
For the most current information on the Nuclear and Space Radiation
Effects Conference, including information on paper submission, please
visit this web site.
Jean Gasiot Receives the 2005 NSREC Radiation
Effects Award
Professor Jean Gasiot from the Université Montpellier, France
received the 2005 Radiation Effects Award at the IEEE Nuclear and
Space Radiation Effects Conference in Seattle. The award was created
to recognize individuals who have had a sustained history of outstanding
and innovative technical and/or leadership contributions to the
radiation effects community. Professor Gasiot’s citation is
“for technical contributions and leadership that have enhanced
the understanding of radiation effects in semiconductor devices,
for strong contributions to the European radiation effects community,
and for promoting radiation effects education.”
Professor Gasiot is a radiation physics specialist who currently
works on issues related to reliability of electronic devices and
systems in space and nuclear environments. He showed the first experimental
evidence of the importance of fast thermoluminescent dosimetry using
laser CO2 heating, in both 1D and 2D dosimetry applications. He
performed pioneering work on optically stimulated luminescence (OSL)
and played a key role in the development of high performance materials
and systems currently used in 2D dosimetry. Jean Gasiot has developed
in Montpellier a group dedicated to the study of radiation effects
on materials and devices, with a special emphasis on basic mechanisms,
device modeling, and radiation hardening.
Jean Gasiot has been an invited researcher at Washington State University
and with the U.S. Navy in Silver Spring, MD. He is the founder and
the first President of the RADECS (Radiation and its Effects on
Components & Systems) Association, and a member of various scientific
associations. RADECS is the first European radiation effects conference.
PHELPS AWARD
On behalf of NPSS, we are proud to announce two recipients of the
Paul Phelps Continuing Education Grant:
Simone Gerardin
Simone Gerardin received the Laurea degree (magna cum laude) in
Electronics Engineering from the University of Padova in 2003, with
a thesis about the flicker noise in MOSFETs with ultra-thin gate
oxide. In 2004 he started a Ph.D. at the same university on the
reliability and radiation hardness of deep-submicron bulk and SOI
CMOS technologies, working, in particular, on the effects induced
by heavy ions. He has authored or co-authored five papers accepted
for presentation at international conferences on radiation effects
in electronics (NSREC and RADECS) and three papers published in
international journals. Simone was nominated by his professor, Dr.
Alessandro Paccagnella.
Aditya Karmarkar
Aditya Karmarkar graduated from the University of Pune, India with
a Metallurgy major in 1998. He received the University of Pune Gold
Medal for the academic year 1997 – 1998 and joined the Interdisciplinary
Program in Materials Science at Vanderbilt University in 1999. He
completed his Master’s degree in 2001, dealing with aging and
long-term reliability of MOS capacitors. For his Ph.D. Aditya is
studying the effects of proton radiation on GaN-based devices. He
has authored or coauthored six papers, including several that were
presented at NSREC. Aditya was nominated by his advisor, Dr. Ronald
Schrimpf.
Teresa Farris, Radiation Effects Publicity Chairwoman, can be
reached at +1 719 594-8035; E-mail: teresa.farris@aeroflex.com.
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