Chair Heather Quinn invites you to NSREC 2024, to be held at the Westin Ottawa with the adjoining Shaw Centre, July 22^nd – 26^th 2024. Ottawa is Canada’s capital, a dynamic showcase city of more than one million people. Located in Ontario at the Quebec border, it’s a place where you’ll hear English and French spoken in the streets; where you can discover Canada’s proud heritage at impressive national sites and famous landmarks, including the Rideau Canal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It’s a city steeped in culture, with world-class museums and galleries displaying stunning national collections and special exhibitions from Canada and around the world. This city is a uniquely beautiful place: an urban center on the edge of nature where you can enjoy the great outdoors either just outside your hotel room or nearby in the surrounding countryside. 

There’s an easy cosmopolitan vibe here, and Ottawa is known for being both welcoming and walkable. Explore the distinctive local neighborhoods, including the historic ByWard Market: by day this area boasts a bustling farmers’ market and chic shops, by night it hums with activity at the restaurants, pubs, and nightclubs.

This is also a city that enjoys the finer things in life, with a culinary community that’s earning wide acclaim, unique boutiques and shopping districts, a lively local music and art scene, and always exciting nightlife. The Westin Ottawa is ideally located right downtown, mere steps away from the historic sites and landmarks, and only a short drive from Ottawa’s international airport.

This is Ottawa, Canada’s capital. Please join us for NSREC 2024 and experience it for yourself. Please visit the NSREC website for 2024 conference details and travel planning tips.

Technical Program

Chaired by William Robinson, Georgia Tech Research Institute, papers to be presented at this meeting will describe the effects of space, terrestrial, or nuclear radiation on electronic or photonic devices, circuits, sensors, materials and systems, as well as semiconductor processing technology and techniques for producing radiation-tolerant devices and integrated circuits. The conference will be attended by engineers, scientists, and managers who are concerned with radiation effects. 

The conference committee is soliciting papers describing significant new findings in the following or related areas:

Basic Mechanisms of Radiation Effects in Electronic Materials and Devices

• Single Event Charge Collection Phenomena and Mechanisms
• Radiation Transport, Energy Deposition and Dosimetry
• Ionizing Radiation Effects
• Materials and Device Effects
• Displacement Damage
• Processing-Induced Radiation Effects

Radiation Effects on Electronic and Photonic Devices and Circuits

• Single Event Effects
• MOS, Bipolar and Advanced Technologies
• Isolation Technologies, such as SOI and SOS
• Optoelectronic and Optical Devices and Systems
• Methods for Hardened Design and Manufacturing
• Modeling of Devices, Circuits and Systems
• Cryogenic or High Temperature Effects
• Novel Device Structures, such as MEMS and Nanotechnologies
• Techniques for Hardening Circuits and Systems

Space, Atmospheric, and Terrestrial Radiation Effects

• Characterization and Modeling of Radiation Environments
• Space Weather Events and Effects
• Spacecraft Charging
• Predicting and Verifying Soft Error Rates (SER)

Hardness Assurance Technology and Testing

• New Modeling and Testing Techniques, Guidelines and Hardness Assurance Methodology
• Unique Radiation Exposure Facilities or Novel Instrumentation Methods
• Dosimetry

New Developments of Interest to the Radiation Effects Community

Radiation Effects Data Workshop

The Radiation Effects Data Workshop is a forum for papers on radiation effects data on electronic devices and systems. Workshop papers are intended to provide radiation response data to scientists and engineers who use electronic devices in a radiation environment, and for designers of radiation-hardened or radiation-tolerant systems. Papers describing new simulation facilities are also welcomed.

Paper Submittal

Information on the submission of summaries to the 2024 NSREC for either the Technical Sessions or the Data Workshop can be found at www.nsrec.com. The deadline for submitting summaries is February 2^nd, 2024.

Short Course

Attendees will have the opportunity to participate in a one-day Short Course on Monday, July 22^nd. The short course is being organized by Vincent Goiffon, ISAE-SUPAERO. The course will be of interest both to radiation effects specialists and newcomers to the field. 

Industrial Exhibit

An Industrial Exhibit will be included as an integral part of the conference and will be chaired by Nadia Rezzak, Microchip. Exhibitors will include companies or agencies involved in manufacturing electronic devices or systems for applications in space or nuclear environments, modeling and analysis of radiation effects at the device and system level, and radiation testing.  Exhibit and Supporter Registration will open in October.

Conference Committee

Teresa Farris, RE Vice Chair, Publicity can be reached by E-mail at [email protected]