From the Reference SEU Monitor to the Technology Demonstration Module On-Board PROBA-II

Compact Modeling and Simulation of Heavy Ion Induced Soft Error Rate in Space Environment: Principles and Validation

“…Meanwhile, the lack of saturation in the cross sections up to 120 MeV-cm 2 /mg has been reported by many investigators [8,9,10,11,12]. The ambiguity of the Weibull function can be illustrated by the following example.…”

Single Event Effect cross section calibration and application to quasi-monoenergetic and spallation facilities

“…In addition, it was tested up to a total ionizing dose (TID) value of 3 kGy (Si) showing no degradation. The part was initially calibrated by ESA for heavy ions up to an LET of 56 MeV cm 2 /mg, protons up to 230 MeV and thermal neutrons [1,9] however it needed to be re-calibrated by CERN for protons in the 30-230 MeV range and neutrons in the 5-15 MeV range owing to (i) the change of the core voltage of the device reported by the manufacturer in order to increase the access speed, and thus also affecting the SEU cross section (ii) the need of evaluating the response to intermediate energy neutrons (0.2-20 MeV) which has been shown in the past [2] to have a significant impact on the high-energy accelerator SEE rate.…”

“…This paper describes the calibration process of an Single Event Upset (SEU) detector, the European Space Agency (ESA) Standard SEU Monitor [1]; and its application to the monitoring of a broad variety of mixed radiation fields.…”

“…An SEU is nondestructive and therefore also known as a soft-error, as the logic element can be rewritten or reset. Such events can compromise the operation of electronic components in a radiation environment, however when calibrated, the SEU response can be used to monitor the radiation levels in a broad range of applications such as space [1], high-energy accelerators [2,3] or medical physics [4]. In order to do so, the response of the device to be used as a detector needs to be determined through monoenergetic measurements relevant to the particle species and energy intervals present in the application mixed-field.…”

“…one composed of different particles species and energies) the number of SEEs N in a given time period will correspond to the convolution of the individual differential particle fluences df i dE E ð Þ and SEE cross sections s i E ð Þ summed over all the different particle species i, as expressed in equation (1):…”