Quantifying the Relationship Between Optical- and Heavy-Ion-Induced Charge Generation in Si-Based Devices and Circuits

Abstract

A comprehensive investigation aimed at performing the basic research necessary to quantify the relationship between charge generation by nonlinear-optical pulse injection and charge generation by heavy-ion irradiation in advanced devices and circuits, is proposed. At present there exists no method for correlating heavy-ion and pulsed-laser-induced charge generation in advanced technology platforms. The present proposal combines Georgia Tech’s world-leading expertise on the radiation-induced transient response of silicon-germanium (SiGe) heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) and highly-scaled (sub-100 nm) CMOS technologies, with NRL’s world-leading expertise and capabilities in the application of pulsed-laser approaches for single-event effects (SEE) investigations, to establish this heavy ion-to-laser correlation for DoD and the radiation effects community

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Oct 13, 2016
Source ID
HDTRA11610018

Entities

People

  • John Cressler

Organizations

  • Defense Threat Reduction Agency
  • Georgia Tech Research Corporation

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Research Science/Academic Research

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy