An experimental study of single-event effects induced in commercial SRAMs by neutrons and protons from thermal energies to 500 MeV

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5 III, 2004, Pages 2817-2824

  Dyer, C S ^a   Clucas, S N ^a   Sanderson, C ^a   Frydland, A D ^a   Green, R T ^b  

^a QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric neutrons; BPSG; Commercial technologies; Neutron radiation effects; Proton radiation effects; Semiconductor device testing; Single event effects (SEEs); SRAM; Thermal neutrons

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAYS; NEUTRONS; PROTONS; RADIATION SHIELDING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE TESTING;

ATMOSPHERIC NEUTRONS; BPSG; COMMERCIAL TECHNOLOGIES; NEUTRON RADIATION EFFECTS; PROTON RADIATION EFFECTS; SINGLE-EVENT EFFECTS (SEE); THERMAL NEUTRONS;

STATIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

EID: 8344278142     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.835083     Document Type: Article

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