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Radiation poses a major threat to satellites. Galactic cosmic rays, solar flares and particles trapped in the Earth’s magnetosphere can have severe consequences on a satellite’s integrity, as the high energies associated with them can damage or even destroy its electronic components. CERN faces similar problems inside the Large Hadron Collider’s (LHC) tunnels and has…

The Floating Gate DOSimeter (FGD0S) is a digital radiation sensor based. Sensor output is a frequency modulated pulse train proportional to radiation dose. Internal counters allow radiaton dose digital value to be read via SPI interface. This sensor, due to its higher sensitivity and lower noise than RadFet, is proposed as a new solution that…

At CERN, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) hosts many electronic systems based on components off the shelf (COTS) that are exposed to a mixed radiation field. The energy spectra of particles at LHC can range from a few megaelectronvolt thermal neutrons (ThNs) to the gigaelectronvolt range and as a result, these components can be affected…