Single Event Phenomena in Atmospheric Neutron Environments

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 1845-1852

  Gossett, C A ^a   Hughlock, B W ^a   Katoozi, M ^a   LaRue, G S ^a   Wender, S A ^b  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; COSMIC RAYS; DETECTORS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTRIC CHARGE MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE BEAMS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SILICON; SPACE FLIGHT;

AIRPLANE ALTITUDES; ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRON ENVIRONMENTS; CHARGE COLLECTION MEASUREMENTS; CONTINUUM ENERGY SPECTRUM; HIGH DENSITY STATIC RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES; NEUTRON ENERGY; NEUTRON SILICON BURST GENERATION; SILICON TEST STRUCTURES; SINGLE EVENT EFFECT;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 0027812596     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.273471     Document Type: Article

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