SEU rate prediction and measurement of GaAs SRAMs onboard the CRRES satellite

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 1463-1470

  Weatherford, T R ^a   McDonald, P T ^a   Campbell, A B ^a   Langworthy, J B ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; IONS; MICROELECTRONICS; PROTONS; RADIATION BELTS; SATELLITES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

COMBINED RELEASE AND RADIATION EFFECTS SATELLITES; PROTON RADIATION BELT; SINGLE EVENT UPSET;

RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

EID: 0027844648     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.273517     Document Type: Article

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