A screened Coulomb scattering module for displacement damage computations in Geant4

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 6 II, 2004, Pages 3669-3678

  Weller, Robert A ^a   Mendenhall, Marcus H ^b   Fleetwood, Daniel M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational physics; Displacement damage; GaAs; Geant4; Monte Carlo; NIEL; Nonionizing energy loss; Nuclear stopping

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HEAVY IONS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIATION EFFECTS;

COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS; DISPLACEMENT DAMAGE; GEANT4; NONIONIZING ENERGY LOSS (NIEL); NUCLEAR STOPPING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 11044232777     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.839643     Document Type: Conference Paper

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