There's now a new opportunity for an early stage researcher at the University of Groningen, Netherlands to work on Radiation to Electronics effects related to the RADSAGA scientific objectives.

The first ever RADSAGA developed CMOS technologies for harsh radiation environment went through the proof of proton and heavy ion beams at the Radiation Effect Facility in Jyväskylä, Finland. The test was held on May 8-9, 2019 by ESR05 Jialei Wang and ESR06 Arijit Karmakar.

The VESPER facility at CERN can be used for characterization of electronics to be used in the Jovian environment. RADSAGA is currently exploring new ways on how to use the facility. Experiments held by Vanessa Wyrwoll (ESR4) with medical detectors will benefit both the radiation to electronics effects domain and the medical physics field.

The Centro Nacional de Aceleradores in Seville, Spain, hosted RADSAGA for a full week on May 13-17, 2019. The main scope of the experiments were low energy protons and their impact on upset rates of state-of-the-art commercial CMOS based SRAMs. A special radiation monitor, based as well on SRAM, and developed within the RADSAGA project was also put in the beam and showed a wide range of responses according to the core voltage supplied.

On March 21st RADSAGA ESRs flew to the United Kingdom in search of an atmospheric neutron beam for irradiation testing of electronics. The Science Technology and Facilities Council (STFC) hosted a fruitful test campaign at the ISIS Neutron Source installation in the Harwell Campus. 

The CERN accelerator complex is officially in shutdown since end of November 2018. RADSAGA students came to CERN for testing their electronics with the very last protons and heavy ions available.

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On November 14-25, PSI delivered some rare electrons and pions beam for radiation testing on electronics. Obviously, RADSAGA ESRs didn't miss out this opportunity and 3 of them moved to Villigen, Switzerland, with their DUTs.

From September 17th to September 21st, two mainstream conferences were held: RADECS in Gothenburg, Sweden and TWEPP in Antwerp, Belgium. Fortunately, RADSAGA has enough ESRs to attend both conferences despite time superpositions. 10 ESRs participated to RADECS and 2 of them could present their posters. RADSAGA also brought a vital contribution to the CERN booth in the Industrial Exhibition. 3 ESRs participated to TWEPP and held a RADSAGA booth there.

18 Months after the official kick-off of the RADSAGA project, the European Commission held a Mid-Term Review during the Saint Etienne Summer School on Tuesday September 11th. Beneficiaries, partners and, of course, students coming from all over Europe explained their role in this consortium, their aim of their research and the benefits of their outcomes on society.