System Health Awareness in Total-Ionizing Dose Environments

TOTAL IONIZING DOSE EFFECTS IN ADVANCED CMOS TECHNOLOGIES By

Professor Sokrates T. Pantelides ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would first of all like to thank my husband Pierre who has been supportive and patient with me on my journey of attaining a Ph.D. He believed in me even when I did not believe in myself, he listened countless times to my presentations and helped me perfect them. I would also like to thank my parents and my sister Myriam for everything they h...

Total Ionizing Dose Radiation Effects on Germanium Pmos Devices

KINGFISHER: Total Maritime Awareness System (Demonstration)

Continuous monitoring of naval activities of vast areas, hundreds of nautical miles away from shoreline, is one of todays most challenging problems. To enable total maritime awareness in these areas, the use of satellite-based sensors is an efficient and cost-effective way to perform this task. The KINGFISHER (Figure 1) is a maritime multi-layer intelligence system created for an in-depth analy...

Military Global Health Engagement and Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation.

U.S. Military Global Health Engagement is evolving toward more specifically military strategic objectives, as well as better coordination with U.S. diplomacy and international development. The Department of Defense (DoD) issued policy guidance on global health engagement codifying these priorities for the first time in 2013, and is now developing the corresponding implementing instructions and ...

Hardening Electronic Devices against Very High Total Dose Radiation Environments

The possibilities and limitations of hardening silicon semiconductor devices to the high neutron and gamma radiation levels (greater than 1016 neutrons/cm 2 (i Mev eq.) and greater than 108 rads (Si) required for the NERVA nuclear engine development are discussed. A comparison is made of the high dose neutron and garmna hardening potential of bipolar, metal insulator semiconductor (MIS), and ju...