On behalf of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and its Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS), Radiation Effects Steering Group (RESG) and the 2025 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) committee, I am pleased to invite you to attend NSREC to be held July 14^th – 18^th, 2025.

The conference will be held at the Nashville Renaissance in downtown Nashville adjacent to the famous 5^th and Broadway. Nashville, nicknamed, Music City, is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and home to Vanderbilt University. Legendary country music venues include the Grand Ole Opry House, home of the famous “Grand Ole Opry” stage and radio show. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and historic Ryman Auditorium are steps away from the Renaissance.

The conference begins Monday, July 14^th, with a one-day Short Course titled, “Radiation Effects in Modern and Emerging Technologies.” The Short Course is organized by Matthew Marinella (Arizona State University) and features four parts taught by experts from our community. This Short Course will introduce the basic radiation effects on devices and systems, from cumulative effects, transient effects, and total dose. In addition, it will offer a valuable perspective on recent radiation studies plus a perspective for future challenges due to radiation effects in contemporary technologies and devices.

The main technical program is from Tuesday, July 15^th, to Friday, July 18^th. Andrew Sternberg, Vanderbilt University, is the conference Technical Program Chair. He, along with his technical committee, has chosen an outstanding set of contributed papers organized into nine sessions of oral presentation and a poster session encompassing papers from all nine sessions. In addition to the main technical sessions, the technical committee has also selected outstanding papers for the Radiation Effects Data Workshop. This is an additional poster session describing radiation effects data on electronics, photonic devices, and systems, new simulation capabilities, and information on new test facilities. Finally, Andrew has invited three speakers to give talks of more general interest to start each morning from Wednesday to Friday.

The Industrial Exhibit, organized by Pierre Maillard, AMD, opens Tuesday morning and concludes Thursday around lunchtime. Attendees will be able to visit the booths during scheduled breaks and a lunch on Tuesday. Attendees and guests are invited to attend a cocktail reception in the exhibit hall on Tuesday evening. The exhibit showcases the products and capabilities of the exhibitors in areas such as semiconductors, systems, modeling, and test resources.

I hope that you will enjoy our social program in Nashville organized by Andrew Kelly, BAE Systems. Two companion tours are scheduled; Tuesday going to Imagine Records to sit in a recording session with a recording artist, and Thursday going to Cheekwood for tours of their amazing gardens and mansion. On Wednesday evening, we have planned a night at the Country Music Hall of Fame, with a live performance to cap off the night, for all attendees. In addition, the conference hotel is well-located in downtown Nashville, where there are many other fabulous food and museum options.

Your 2025 Conference Committee looks forward to seeing you in Nashville this July!

Join us for NSREC 2025 and experience it for yourself. Please visit the NSREC website (www.nsrec.com) for 2025 conference details and travel planning tips.

“It is my pleasure to invite ya’ll to join us for the 2025 NSREC in the heart of Music City, Nashville, TN. Music is the universal language and there is no better place to experience music than in Nashville, a city of storytellers and dreamers. It is a city where ya’ll are welcome with an authentic, friendly, creative spirit. It’s a city for you to discover all it has to offer, and you can write your own Music City story. Beyond the music, food and drink, there is never a shortage of inspiring things to do. From the museums, the arts, sports and shopping, there is an “only in Nashville” experience waiting for you. It looks to be a great week of technical presentations and social functions that our committee has planned for you to help you write your story. Please join us and find your Nashville inspiration.”

Technical Program

The Technical Program Chair, Andrew Sternberg, Vanderbilt University, and his committee will be assembling the technical agenda from abstracts due February 7^th, 2025, and from Late News abstracts submitted by mid-May 2025. They anticipate nine oral sessions and a Poster Session.

Papers presented in the NSREC technical sessions can be
submitted for publication after the conference in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (TNS) and are subject to the standard TNS peer review process.

The Poster Session Chair is Enxia Zhang, University of Central Florida. The Data Workshop Chair is Matt Von Thun, Frontgrade.

Power Devices and Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors — Chair: Art Witulski, Vanderbilt University

Hardness Assurance — Chair: Rebekah Austin, NASA GSFC

Environments, Facilities, and Dosimetry — Chair: Matthieu Beaumel, SODERN

Photonic Devices and Integrated Circuits — Chair: Damien Lambert, CEA

Radiation Effects in Devices and Integrated Circuits — Chair: Aymeric Privat, Onsemi

Basic Mechanisms of Radiation Effects — Chair: Giulio Borghello, CERN

Single-Event Effects: Mechanisms and Modeling — Chair: Ashok Raman, CFDRC

Hardening by Design — Chair: Luca Sterpone, Politecnico di Torino

Single-Event Effects: Devices and Integrated Circuits — Chair: Sapan Agarwal, Sandia National Laboratories

Radiation Effects Data Workshop

The Radiation Effects Data Workshop is a forum for papers addressing 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 radiation environments, and for designers of radiation-hardened or radiation-tolerant systems. Papers describing new simulation capabilities and facilities are also welcome.

Industrial Exhibit

An Industrial Exhibit will be included as an integral part of the conference and will be chaired by Pierre Maillard, AMD. 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 is open at www.nsrec.com.

2024 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference Awards

It is a longstanding tradition of the IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference to recognize the Outstanding Conference Paper and the Outstanding Data Workshop Presentation from the previous conference. In recent years recognition has also been given to the best paper presented by an IEEE Student Member, who must also be the first author. The awards process recognizes high quality and important work and encourages authors to produce presentations and manuscripts of high technical quality, clarity of presentation, and significance to the community.

It is our pleasure to announce the award winners from the 2024 NSREC. Their awards will be presented at NSREC 2025 Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

Outstanding Conference paper:
Effectiveness of NIEL as a Predictor of Single Event Displacement Damage Effects in CMOS Circuits
J. M. Trippe, B. D. Sierawski, G. Mayberry, H. M. Dattilo, S. T. Pantelides, D. M. Fleetwood, R. D. Schrimpf, L. W. Massengill, and R. A. Reed

Outstanding Student Conference paper:
SEU Cross-Section Trends for Threshold Voltage Options from 16-nm to 3-nm Bulk FinFET Nodes
Y. Xiong, N. J. Pieper, J. B. Kronenberg, M. Delaney, C. N. N. Sanchez, D. R. Ball, M. Casey, R. Fung, S.-J. Wen and B. L. Bhuva

Outstanding Data Workshop Presentation Award:
Compendium of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Recent Radiation Effects Test Results
M. O’Bryan, S. Roffe, E. Wilcox, M. Campola, J. Osheroff, M. Casey, M. Joplin, T. Carstens, J. Barth, L. Ryder, K. Ryder, J. Lauenstein, W. Adia, P. Majewicz

Michael Campola, RE Vice Chair for Publicity, can be reached by E-mail at [email protected]

Kay Chesnut, RE Chair, can be reached by E-mail at [email protected]