B. Bansal;V. Anand;Naveen Kumar Tailor;V. Ranga;Soumitra Satapathi;P. J. Sellin;Mohit Tyagi;G. Anil Kumar
{"title":"Scintillation Properties of CsCu2I3 Perovskite Single Crystal Grown by Room Temperature Solution Processing Method","authors":"B. Bansal;V. Anand;Naveen Kumar Tailor;V. Ranga;Soumitra Satapathi;P. J. Sellin;Mohit Tyagi;G. Anil Kumar","doi":"10.1109/TNS.2025.3595803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2025.3595803","url":null,"abstract":"Metal halide perovskites have received great interest in developing scintillator materials. Among various types of perovskites, low dimensional metal halide perovskites have high exciton binding energy and photo-luminescence quantum yield (PLQY), making them suitable for X-ray and <inline-formula> <tex-math>$gamma $ </tex-math></inline-formula>-ray detection. In this work, we report the growth and characterization (structural and optical) of 1-D CsCu<sub>2</sub>I<sub>3</sub> single crystal (SC). The SC was grown using the solvent evaporation method at room temperature. The crystal exhibits an orthorhombic structure with <italic>Cmcm</i> space group. The optical characterizations show a yellow photoluminescence (PL) with a large Stoke’s shift (~230 nm) that originate from self-trapped exciton (STE) emission. The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) results indicate that the addition of oleic acid (OA) prevents the oxidation of Cu<sup>+</sup>. Further, we coupled the SC with a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) to study the scintillation properties. The grown crystal has been characterized for light output, energy resolution, linearity, and non-proportionality. The CsCu<sub>2</sub>I<sub>3</sub> SC grown for this study exhibits a comparable light output of ~20000 ph/MeV to those grown using inverse temperature crystallization (ITC), as reported in the literature. However, the energy resolution reported in this study (11.57% at 662 keV) is better than the values reported for ITC-grown crystals in the literature. GEANT4 simulation toolkit has been used to perform the simulations, and the simulated intrinsic photopeak efficiencies for different volumes of CsCu<sub>2</sub>I<sub>3</sub> scintillator have been obtained and compared with NaI:Tl and bismuth germanate (BGO) scintillators.","PeriodicalId":13406,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science","volume":"72 9","pages":"3169-3177"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145090092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic Hardware Defense for High-Centrality Nodes in Graph Convolutional Networks","authors":"Chang Cai;Peiyu Li;Wangshen Wen;Zeqi Huang;Youming Peng;Minchi Hu;Zehao Wu;Lei Shen;Jing Zhang","doi":"10.1109/TNS.2025.3595388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2025.3595388","url":null,"abstract":"With the growing reliance on graph data processing in safety-critical applications, ensuring the reliability of graph convolutional network (GCN) hardware systems has become paramount, especially in radiation-prone environments where single-event upsets (SEUs) pose significant risks. This article presents a comprehensive design framework for a fault-tolerant GCN system, addressing the unique challenges of SEU susceptibility through a novel fault-aware centrality measure and a dynamic hardware defense (DHD) strategy. Our approach begins with the development of a fault-aware centrality measure to precisely model the distribution of critical nodes within graph data. Leveraging this measure, we design a DHD strategy that integrates partial circuit reinforcement and high-centrality node marking, which dynamically route the dataflow of the most influential nodes in the graph to reinforced circuit units. The proposed system architecture is rigorously validated through extensive experiments, demonstrating significant improvements in fault tolerance. Specifically, the DHD strategy achieves improvements in hardening efficiency of <inline-formula> <tex-math>$2.53times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula> <tex-math>$2.70times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula> <tex-math>$2.85times $ </tex-math></inline-formula>, respectively, compared with the traditional full triple modular redundancy (FTMR) strategy. Neutron radiation testing further validates the robustness of the system, showing effective mitigation of fault propagation under extreme conditions. By maintaining minimal hardware overhead and offering dynamic, cost-effective protection, this design framework provides a reliable solution for deploying GCNs in safety-critical applications.","PeriodicalId":13406,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science","volume":"72 9","pages":"3052-3063"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145090271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oksana M. Strilchuk;Galyna Yu. Rudko;Evgen G. Gule;Oksana S. Lytvyn;Volodymyr P. Maslov;Baolai Liang;Yuriy I. Mazur
{"title":"Modification of the Morphology and Light-Emitting Properties of InGaAs/GaAs Uncapped Quantum Dots by γ-Irradiation","authors":"Oksana M. Strilchuk;Galyna Yu. Rudko;Evgen G. Gule;Oksana S. Lytvyn;Volodymyr P. Maslov;Baolai Liang;Yuriy I. Mazur","doi":"10.1109/TNS.2025.3594156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2025.3594156","url":null,"abstract":"The influence of <inline-formula> <tex-math>$gamma $ </tex-math></inline-formula>-irradiation on the morphology and light-emitting characteristics (intensity, peak position, and half-width of photoluminescence (PL) bands) of uncapped In<italic><sub>x</sub></i>Ga<sub>1-x</sub>As/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) grown on GaAs (100) substrates is studied. The radiation doses varied in the 1–<inline-formula> <tex-math>$10^{3}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> kGy range. It is found that the average size of QDs increases and the surface density of QDs decreases as the radiation dose rises. Irradiation with low doses of <inline-formula> <tex-math>$gamma $ </tex-math></inline-formula>-quanta improves the luminescence intensity of the samples due to the low-dose effect. Intensity increase at higher-dose irradiation is explained by enhancing transfer of carriers from the wetting layer (WL) to QDs via radiation-induced defect levels. The spectral position of QDs luminescence band remains unaltered or weakly blue-shifts under irradiation that is explained by the counter-play of two effects: growth of the average sizes of QDs and out-diffusion of indium from QDs.","PeriodicalId":13406,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science","volume":"72 9","pages":"3064-3068"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145090097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of a Multichannel, 14-bit, 3-MS/s Hybrid ADC Based on SAR-TDC Two-Stage Conversion for Dark Matter Particle Detection","authors":"Chunyang Yu;Boyuan Yang;Jingsi Cheng;Hongjiao Dong;Zhengyu Ren;Guini Zhao;Chen Zhao;Yi Qian;Wu Gao","doi":"10.1109/TNS.2025.3590195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2025.3590195","url":null,"abstract":"The precision charge measurement of a gamma ray radiation detector consisting of scintillation crystals coupled with photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) is critical in the dark matter particle detection application. A high-resolution high-speed analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is required to digitize the amplitude of the generated pulse signals from the front-end readout electronics. In this article, we propose a novel hybrid ADC based on two-stage conversion to achieve high resolution and high sampling rate, and the key design technique of this ADC lies in optimizing the combination of successive approximation register (SAR) and time-to-digital converter (TDC) accuracy through system-level performance evaluation, ultimately achieving a high energy-efficiency ratio. A 14-bit hybrid ADC, which is composed of a 5-bit SAR, a 4-bit coarse TDC, and a 5-bit fine TDC, is proposed. A 16-channel prototype chip is designed in a 180-nm CMOS process with a 1.8/3.3 V power supply voltage. The die size is <inline-formula> <tex-math>$2850times 3350~mu text {m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. A sampling rate of 3 MS/s is achieved at the clock frequency of 100 MHz, and the power consumption is 1.6 mW per channel. With the digital calibration, the proposed ADC achieves the differential nonlinearity (DNL) of +0.67/-0.58 LSB, the integral nonlinearity (INL) of +2.3/-0.91 LSB, the spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) of 81.59 dB, the effective number of bits (ENOB) of 11.22 bits, and the Figure of Merit (FoM) of 223.58 fJ/conv per channel.","PeriodicalId":13406,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science","volume":"72 9","pages":"3145-3154"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145090100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design, Modeling, and Characterization of a Floating Gate Dosimeter in Standard CMOS Technology for Sensor Reuse","authors":"T. Daros;N. C. Cábia;J. Piteira;M. C. Schneider","doi":"10.1109/TNS.2025.3594306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2025.3594306","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the design, model, and characterization of a floating gate dosimeter (FGDOS), fabricated using standard complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. The proposed model incorporates a parameter to account for trapped charge on the oxide, thereby providing deeper physical insight into the device’s behavior. We present a comprehensive comparison between the proposed model and experimental data, validating the accuracy of the proposed model. In addition, we propose a characterization method to extract key parameters of the FGDOS. Experimental validation was conducted using a 6 MeV linear accelerator and an X-ray diffractometer, with results demonstrating the model’s accuracy across a dose range of over 100 Gy (H<sub>2</sub>O). Finally, we show that, after each reset of the floating gate (FG), the dose can be determined from a normalized sensitivity, which is independent of the previous history of the sensor. This means that the FGDOS can be reused several times and still keep the same dependence of the normalized sensitivity on the dose.","PeriodicalId":13406,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science","volume":"72 9","pages":"3069-3076"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145090270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuzhu Liu;Shiwei Zhao;Pengfei Zhai;Teng Zhang;Yu Dong;Jie Liu
{"title":"Heavy-Ion Effects in SiC Power MOSFETs With Different Gate Oxide Thicknesses","authors":"Yuzhu Liu;Shiwei Zhao;Pengfei Zhai;Teng Zhang;Yu Dong;Jie Liu","doi":"10.1109/TNS.2025.3593241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2025.3593241","url":null,"abstract":"Heavy-ion-induced single-event leakage current (SELC) in silicon carbide (SiC) power MOSFETs is investigated. Our experimental data for 1200 V SiC power MOSFETs with varying gate oxide thicknesses reveal that a thicker oxide reduces SELC in the drain–gate path but increases SELC in the drain–source path, suggesting a redistribution of damage in the device. Based on these experimental results, we propose the Lightning Leader model. This model suggests that a conductive path formed by heavy-ion passing through the gate oxide diverts current flow from the source to the low-resistance path in the gate, thereby mitigating damage to the source p–n junction region and altering the overall damage distribution in the SiC power MOSFET. Besides, we also discuss the SELC step extraction method as well as the impact of micro-dose effect and its annealing behavior.","PeriodicalId":13406,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science","volume":"72 9","pages":"3033-3043"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145090094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Trace Wallace;Nathaniel A. Dodds;Aldo I. Vidana;R. Nathan Nowlin;B. Dodd;H. J. Barnaby;M. Spear;J. Neuendank;Jeffrey S. Kauppila;Timothy D. Haeffner;Grant D. Poe;Sean T. Vibbert;Lloyd W. Massengill;J. L. Taggart;B. Foran;Stefano Bonaldo
{"title":"The Effect of Number of Fins per Transistor on the TID Response of 12LP FinFET Technology","authors":"Trace Wallace;Nathaniel A. Dodds;Aldo I. Vidana;R. Nathan Nowlin;B. Dodd;H. J. Barnaby;M. Spear;J. Neuendank;Jeffrey S. Kauppila;Timothy D. Haeffner;Grant D. Poe;Sean T. Vibbert;Lloyd W. Massengill;J. L. Taggart;B. Foran;Stefano Bonaldo","doi":"10.1109/TNS.2025.3589259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2025.3589259","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents an analysis of the total ionizing dose (TID) response of n-channel transistors in the 12LP fin-based field effect transistor (FinFET) technology, with a focus on the impact of fin count per transistor. Previous studies, such as those by Vidana (2023), have shown increased <sc>off</small>-state current (<inline-formula> <tex-math>$I_{text {DS}-text {off}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) in n-channel FinFETs caused by charge buildup in shallow trench isolation (STI) oxides. However, these trends vary based on the number of fins used in the device. This work introduces a physics-based data-driven model supported by TCAD simulations to explain the fin count dependence on TID response. The model identifies variability in charge trapping in different STI regions, specifically highlighting the role of silicon nitride layers in mitigating leakage in devices with two or fewer fins. This research not only corroborates prior findings but also provides new insights into the electrostatic sensitivities unique to nanoscale FinFETs, offering a better understanding of TID effects and potential device hardening strategies.","PeriodicalId":13406,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science","volume":"72 8","pages":"2317-2323"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144867812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design, Fabrication, and Cold Test of a High-Efficiency C-Band Traveling-Wave Accelerating Structure","authors":"Yihao Zhang;Zhicheng Huang;Yelong Wei;Li Sun;Zexin Cao;Chengzhe Wang;Guangyao Feng;Luigi Faillace;David Alesini","doi":"10.1109/TNS.2025.3591648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2025.3591648","url":null,"abstract":"To implement the linear injector for the proposed Jinhua light source (JHLS) project, a 1-m C-band constant gradient (CG) traveling-wave (TW) accelerating structure is developed with the aim of generating a gradient of <inline-formula> <tex-math>$geq 40$ </tex-math></inline-formula> MV/m. This C-band structure works at a mode of <inline-formula> <tex-math>$3pi $ </tex-math></inline-formula>/4 with a relatively low group velocity varying from <inline-formula> <tex-math>$0.016c$ </tex-math></inline-formula> to <inline-formula> <tex-math>$0.009c$ </tex-math></inline-formula> to increase the accelerating gradient at a given input power. It employs a cell shape with elliptical irises and circular arc tops to reduce the surface electric and magnetic fields and to achieve an average shunt impedance of 94 M<inline-formula> <tex-math>$Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula>/m through optimizations. This results in an accelerating gradient of 40 MV/m with an input power of 29.6 MW, which means this structure can convert the input power into the accelerating gradient with a high efficiency. Moreover, a new technique is utilized for the design of couplers, significantly simplifying the whole optimization process and achieving high accuracy. After fabrication, the structure was precisely tuned, and results from low-power radio frequency (RF) measurements and the comparison with simulated values are also presented in this article.","PeriodicalId":13406,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science","volume":"72 8","pages":"2868-2876"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11091508","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144868438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hao Jiang;Xiaodong Xu;Tao Ying;Xueqiang Yu;Jianqun Yang;Rui Chen;Yanan Liang;Xingji Li
{"title":"Effect of Heavy Ion Radiation on Electrical Performance of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs in Non-Gate Region","authors":"Hao Jiang;Xiaodong Xu;Tao Ying;Xueqiang Yu;Jianqun Yang;Rui Chen;Yanan Liang;Xingji Li","doi":"10.1109/TNS.2025.3591512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2025.3591512","url":null,"abstract":"This study employs different types and energies of heavy ions to irradiate AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs), inducing defects with a non-uniform depth distribution in the GaN epitaxial layer beneath the non-gate region. By integrating experimental and simulation approaches, we investigate the variation patterns of the device’s electrical performance as a function of irradiation fluence. Through electrical performance testing and simulations using extreme-environment radiation effect technology computer aided design (ERETCAD) software, it was observed that heavy ion-induced damage is confined to the GaN epitaxial layer beneath the non-gate region, the saturated drain current (<inline-formula> <tex-math>${I} _{mathbf {ds}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) decreases with increasing irradiation fluence, and the threshold voltage (<inline-formula> <tex-math>${V} _{mathbf {th}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) of the device remains unchanged. Heavy ion radiation introduces displacement defects in the GaN layer, and as the distance from the 2-D electron gas (2DEG) increases, the Coulomb scattering effect of these defects on carriers diminishes. Consequently, by accounting for the scattering effects of radiation-induced charged defects on carriers, the traditional non-ionizing energy loss (NIEL) value is refined. This adjustment leads to an equivalent degradation phenomenon where the <inline-formula> <tex-math>${I} _{mathbf {ds}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> under different heavy ion irradiations correlates with the total effective non-ionizing energy deposition (TNID<inline-formula> <tex-math>${}_{mathbf {effective}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>).","PeriodicalId":13406,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science","volume":"72 9","pages":"3044-3051"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145090141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}