RADNEXT proposal has been submitted!

In the scope of RADSAGA, the need of ensuring a high quantity and quality of irradiation beam time at European facilities was clearly highlighted, amongst others during the RADSAGA system level review held in November 2019. As a consequence, the RADNEXT proposal was born, integrating a rich, transversal and complementary collection of European infrastructures capable of providing a broad range of irradiation beams and services.

Qualification of electronic components and systems is typically performed in facilities dedicated to medical applications, or fundamental research in nuclear, radiobiology or high-energy physics. Therefore, not being the core activity of such installations, the beam time offered for electronics irradiation is largely uncorrelated to the needs. The latter by the way are steadily increasing over the past years, owing mainly to the proliferation of high-reliability ground level applications relying on electronics, as well as to the "New Space" era. Therefore, one of the primary goals of RADNEXT is to ensure that academia and industry will have a sustained, varied and high-quality access to irradiation beams in order to progress on the research of radiation effects against electronics. 

Moreover, RADNEXT's ambition is also to harmonize and standardize aspects such as the access to the facilities, the techniques employed in characterizing the irradiation beams, and the methodologies for qualifying state-of-the-art components and systems. It will also very much focus on supporting future users without experience in assessing radiation effects to electronics, but who may still be impacted by the problematic.

More information about RADNEXT is available in the proposal's website: https://radnext-network.web.cern.ch/