RADSAGA stands for RADiation and Reliability Challenges for Electronics used in
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.
On March 12-16, 2020, one year after the first test campaign, the RADSAGA ESRs went back to the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Didcot, UK. The RADSAGA students on site were Daniel Söderström (ESR 02), Kimmo Niskanen (ESR 07) and Mohamed Mounir Mahmoud (ESR 08).
Last week, our ESRs have attended a specializing training at KU Leuven. During the first 3 days, the ESRs have experienced a dense and hands-on training program focused on how to transform the knowledge and technology developed during the PhD studies into a profitable company.
A major milestone in the RADSAGA project has just been set after the System Level Testing Review which was held at CERN on November 11-13, 2019. The review mainly dealt with current achievement and future perspectives of WP3 and WP4.
Vanessa Wyrwoll (ESR4) has coordinated a test campaign of the new RADSAGA partner, the University of Oldenburg and PTW-Freiburg dedicated to the Very High Energy Electron Beam (VHEE) available at the CLEAR facility at CERN. The experiments were performed to determine the detector behaviour and response of clinically established detectors VHEE ultra-high dose rate radiation environment.
A new RADSAGA workshop is now confirmed for February 3-7, 2020 in KU Leuven, Geel Campus, Belgium. It will be the final specializing training event for the RADSAGA project.
As previously reported on these pages, RADSAGA provided a major contribution to the Radiation Effects on Electronics Devices and Systems Conference held in Montpellier, France on September 16-20. Here's a summary of the main activities and achievements,
Daniel Söderstöm (ESR2) travelled to CERN on September 10-12 for a test campaign dedicated to high energy electrons at the CLEAR facility. This was made possible by the VESPER (The Very energetic Electron facility for Space Planetary Exploration missions in harsh Radiative environments) test instrument.
Mohamed Mounir (ESR08) has developed a new design test structure for accelerated radiative physical tests to account for impact of aging degradation. The test structure is made of a large array of transistors and digital delay chain test structures in 28 nm ST FD-SOI.
