A portable planar Sr-90 irradiation setup for total dose testing of electronic devices

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 1388-1392

  Lifshitz, Y ^a   Levinson, J ^a   Noter, Y ^a   Shamai, Y ^a   Akkerman, A ^a   Even, O ^a   Zentner, A ^a   Israeli, M ^a   Gibrekhterman, A ^b   Singer, L ^c  

^a SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c Israel Space Agency   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COBALT; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON DEVICE TESTING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; MOLECULES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; STRONTIUM;

ELECTRONIC DEVICES; PORTABLE IRRADIATION SET-UP;

PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

EID: 0027810408     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.273527     Document Type: Article

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