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Radiation Effects

Annual report from the Radiation Effects Committee

Teresa Farris Vice Chair, Publicity
Robert Reed, Chair, Radiation Effects Steering Group

The IEEE Radiation Effects Committee (REC) held its annual Open Meeting on July 27th  at the 2023 Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC). Robert Reed, Radiation Effects SG chair, was unable to lead the meeting due to an illness. The meeting was chaired by Janet Barth, Past RESG Chair. Presentations were given by the general chairs of the 2022 through 2024 NSRECs and the chair of the

2023 and 2024 European Conference on Radiation and its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS). 

Janet also recognized the elected members of the IEEE NPSS AdCom: Ken Galloway, Vanderbilt Univ. (term ends in 2023) and Philippe Paillet, CEA (term ends in 2025). She followed this recognition by announcing candidates for the upcoming IEEE NPSS AdCom member election to replace Ken:  Marty Shaneyfelt, Sandia (ret.) and John Stone, SWRI.

Ruben Garcia, Outgoing RESG member

Janet opened the meeting by recognizing elected and appointed members of the Radiation Effects Steering Group (RESG). The elected members of the 2023 RESG are Kay Chesnut, Raytheon, Vice Chair; Janet Barth, NASA (ret.), Past Chair; Arto Javanainen, Jyväskylä University, Secretary; Rubén García Alía, CERN, Senior Member-at-Large; and Mike Tostanoski, Radiation Test Solutions, Inc., Member-at-Large; Megan Casey, NASA/GSFC, Junior Member-at-Large. Robert recognized Rubén García Alía as the outgoing member of the RESG. Mike will take over as Senior Member-at-Large and Megan will take over as Member-at-Large. An election was held to determine the new Junior Member-at-Large; Laurent Artola, ONERA, was elected.

Janet announced the general chairs for future NSREC Conferences: Heather Quinn, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2024, Dolores Black, Sandia National Laboratories, 2025, and Philippe Paillet, CEA, 2026, and Jonny Pellish, NASA, 2027.

Tom Turflinger, Aerospace Corporation, the General Chair of the 2022 Conference, summarized statistics of last year’s conference. A total of 509 people registered for the technical sessions and 369 people registered for the short course. 

Keith Avery, the General Chair of the 2023 Conference, summarized statistics of this year’s conference. A total of 544 people registered for the technical sessions and 351 people registered for the short course. 

NSREC 2023 was held in person July 24th – 28th at the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center, Kansas City, Missouri..  The technical sessions featured 124 papers that were presented during the five-day conference: 39 oral presentations, 42 poster presentations, and 43 poster presentations in the Radiation Effects Data Workshop. Four tutorial presentations were given at the Short Course, held July 24th. 

Heather Quinn, LANL, General Chair of the 2024 Conference, discussed her plans for the 2024 Conference that will take place in Ottawa, Ontario, at the Shaw Centre, on July 22nd – 26th, 2024. The conference will feature a technical program with 10 sessions of contributed papers that will describe the latest observations and research results in radiation effects. The program will include oral and poster papers, with a separate dedicated poster session where authors of poster papers can discuss their results with conference attendees. A Radiation Effects Data Workshop and an Industrial Exhibit will be held. Attendees will also be able to participate in a one-day Short Course on Monday, July 22nd where an outstanding group of technical experts will provide an in-depth discussion of Radiation Considerations for Board-Level Computing Systems. 

NSREC 2024 Short Course, Ottawa, Canada

The Short Course Chair is Vincent Goiffon, ISAE SUPAERO. The theme is: Radiation Effects on Electronic and Photonic Technologies: from Basic Concepts to Advanced Mechanisms. Presentations and speakers for the four sessions are:

  • Basic Mechanisms and Displacement Damage Effects in Electronics, Dr. Elizabeth Auden. Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Total Ionizing Dose Effects in Si MOSFETs Up to Ultra-High Doses, Dr. Stefano Bonaldo, DEI, University of Padova, Dr. Federico Faccio CERN and  Dr. Giulio Borghello CERN
  • Single-Event Effects in Devices and ICs: Phenomena and Testing Methods, Dr. Ani Khachatrian, US Naval Research Laboratory
  • Radiation Effects on Photonics: Image Sensors and Optical Fibers, Prof. Sylvain Girard, University of Saint-Etienne and Dr. Cedric Virmontois, CNES

The most current information about the Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference, including contact information and paper submission requirements, can be obtained on the new NSREC website: www.nsrec.com.

Robert Reed, Executive Chair of the Radiation Effects Committee, can be reached by e-mail at [email protected]