10–15 Aug 2025
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
America/Los_Angeles timezone

High Energy Heavy Ion Single Event Effects (HE HISEE): Planning for the future of microelectronics

THP041
14 Aug 2025, 16:00
2h
Ballroom A (SAFE Credit Union Convention Center)

Ballroom A

SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

Poster Presentation MC8 – Applications of Accelerators, Technology Transfer, Industrial Relations, and Outreach Thursday Poster Session

Speaker

Dr Sandra Biedron (Element Aero)

Description

One unique accelerator application is the testing of microelectronics for utilization in space. In particular, space provides two environment challenges that provide exposure to energetic heavy ions: galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) and solar particle events (SPEs). These particles cause risk by depositing charge in microelectronics potentially causing operational errors or even destructive failure.
Testing electronics with a variety of ground-based accelerators is not new. What is new is the increasing need for high-energy (> 100 Mev/n) heavy ions with ~40% of all testing predicted to require this high energy by 2030. This is primarily for two reasons:
- Mission-enabling advanced stacked microelectronics technologies such as 3D packaged devices that require higher energy to penetrate to the sensitive locations within these devices, and,
- Increase in demand to perform system-level testing using “large irradiation area” kinematics. This large area also allows for large sample sizes to be irradiated simultaneously for efficiency.
Presently, the is only one domestic accelerator that can achieve high energy heavy ions, that of Brookhaven National Laboratory’s NASA Space Radiation Laboratory. Here, we discuss the requirements needed by the test community and the domestic effort to close the gap in the number of test hours. A current government-funded study is underway to analyze options for the future.

Funding Agency

Department of Defense

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Author

Dr Sandra Biedron (Element Aero)

Co-authors

Anna Lowe (JRC Integrated Solutions (JRC)) Daniel Marrujo (Trusted Strategic Solutions) Eric Everts (JRC Integrated Solutions (JRC)) Greg Van Dyk (Trusted Strategic Solutions) James DeFilippi (Trusted Strategic Solutions) Jeremy Millspaugh (JRC Integrated Solutions (JRC)) Jonathan Miller (Trusted Strategic Solutions) Keith Avery (Trusted Strategic Solutions) Dr Kenneth LaBel (Trusted Strategic Solutions) Matthew Bedel (NSWC Crane Division) Michael Stapleton (Scientific Research Corporation, Contractor support to the Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) Nuclear Modernization) Richard Leonard (JRC Integrated Solutions (JRC)) Thomas Turflinger (The Aerospace Corporation)

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