Marta Rizzo;Michele Muschitiello;Viyas Gupta;Marc Poizat
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Abstract
Over the past years, the space industry has witnessed a steady increase in the amount of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components deployed in spacecrafts. The use of COTS components, however, requires an increased effort from quality control professionals, and specifically from radiation hardness assurance (RHA) engineers. In fact, besides being less traceable, they can also occasionally introduce unusual failure modes, caused by the association of radiation effects paired with other environmental factors, such as temperature. Moreover, the absence of Radiation Hardening By Design makes these failure modes sometimes difficult to predict and characterize. This work investigates the combined effects of total ionizing dose (TID) and temperature variations on an LT1521 low dropout (LDO) voltage regulator. Particular attention was paid to lot characterization, and general conclusions were drawn on the TID versus temperature characterization method. The LT1521 was found to be liable to a complete shutdown for TID levels higher than 20 krad(Si) and at cold enough temperatures. Finally, the likely root causes of this failure mode were identified in the circuit.
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The IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science is a publication of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. It is viewed as the primary source of technical information in many of the areas it covers. As judged by JCR impact factor, TNS consistently ranks in the top five journals in the category of Nuclear Science & Technology. It has one of the higher immediacy indices, indicating that the information it publishes is viewed as timely, and has a relatively long citation half-life, indicating that the published information also is viewed as valuable for a number of years.
The IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science is published bimonthly. Its scope includes all aspects of the theory and application of nuclear science and engineering. It focuses on instrumentation for the detection and measurement of ionizing radiation; particle accelerators and their controls; nuclear medicine and its application; effects of radiation on materials, components, and systems; reactor instrumentation and controls; and measurement of radiation in space.