A semi-empirical approach for heavy ion SEU cross section calculations

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3271-3276

  Wrobel, Frédéric ^a   Hubert, Guillaume ^b   Iacconi, Philibert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion model; Heavy ion; Rutherford scattering; Single event upset; Weibull

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SCATTERING; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

DIFFUSION MODEL THEORY; RUTHERFORD SCATTERING; SINGLE EVENT UPSET (SEU); WEIBULL;

HEAVY IONS;

EID: 33846299181     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.886200     Document Type: Conference Paper

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