Radiation Effects Committee Summary Report

1. Radiation Effects CommitteeSummary Report Dan Fleetwood, Chair REC 29 October 2011

2. Conference CommitteeNSREC 2011, Las Vegas, NV • General Chair – Kay Chesnut, Boeing • Technical Program – Robert Reed, Vanderbilt • Short Course – Steve McClure, JPL • Local Arrangements – Dale McMorrow, NRL • Finance – John Stone, SWRI • Publicity – Teresa Farris, Aeroflex • Industrial Exhibits – Mike Fitzpatrick, Northrop Grumman • Awards – Ray Ladbury, NASA 2011 NSREC Conference Status

3. NSREC AttendanceLas Vegas, NV, July 26-30, 2011 One Short Course at NSREC on Monday, 7/26 Total Attendance = 414

4. Short Course Topics Space Radiation Environments and Their Effects on Devices and Systems: Back to the Basics 2011 NSREC Conference Status

5. How Does Attendance Compare to Past Conferences? Seattle 2011 NSREC Conference Status

6. Other Facts 484 Registrants from USA (476) and Canada (8) Also two from South Africa We had 7 exhibitors on the waiting list!

7. International Attendance 106 Non-US Attendees (18%)

8. IEEE Gold Member Breakfast • New event for the conference for IEEE members who have been in practice for less than 10 years from their professional degree. • Full buffet breakfast. • Hosted by Jonny Pellish • 19 people signed up. • Dennis Brown was our IEEE spy. He said, “Everyone had a great time and they did not really need me.” 2011 NSREC Conference Status

9. Upcoming NSRECs • 2012—Intercontinental, Miami, FL, July 16-20, Conference Chair, Ken LaBel, NASA GSFC • All committees in place; budget approved • RESG will meet on site Nov. 8-9, 2011, for final review • 2013—Hyatt Embarcadero, San Francisco, July 8-12, Conference Chair, Jeff Black, Sandia National Labs • RE is offering a motion on 50th anniversary themed events • Special issue of the TNS • DVD for conference attendees of 49 years of Dec. TNS • 2014—Conference Chair, Robert Ecoffet, CNES • First IEEE NSREC outside North America • No RADECS in 2014 • Marriott, Rive Gauche – final contract review (we hope) • 2015—Conference Chair, Mike Xapsos, NASA GSFC • East Coast, US (e.g., Washington, Boston, New York City)

10. Special Issue: IEEE TNS • Planned for June 2013 • Guest Editors • Pascale Gouker, MIT Lincoln Lab • Veronique Ferlet-Cavrois, ESA • Jonny Pellish, NASA GSFC • The first public announcement was at NSREC 2011 • Publicized at www.nsrec.com • Several invited reviews have been solicited • First drafts due March 15, 2012

11. Topics under Consideration for the Special Issue • Review papers on single event effects, total ionizing dose, displacement damage, and Space Environments including the basics and an update on recent developments • Radiation effects in emerging materials and devices • FinFETs, compound semiconductor devices • Carbon nanotubes, graphene • New memories • Advancement in modeling and simulation tools • New single event effects in high speed digital and linear IC • Single event transients • Proton direct ionization effects / hardness assurance testing • Reduced sensitive volume, charge sharing, MBU • Radiation assessment and hardness assurance of new generation modern complex commercial micro-circuits • For terrestrial, avionics and space – FPGA, ASICS, microprocessors, DDRx and non-volatile memories, …. • Space radiation: what was learned in the last 10-years from space missions and on-satellite dosimetry • Current models & future development • Spacecraft – radiation interaction • Advanced optoelectronics devices and components • Detectors, optical fibers, high speed data link