Soft Errors

Jean-Luc Autran is distinguished professor of physics and electrical engineering at Aix-Marseille University and honorary member of the University Institute of France (IUF). He is also deputy director of the Institute for Materials, Microelectronics, and Nanosciences of Provence (IM2NP, UMR CNRS 7334) and the principal investigator of the Altitude Single-event effects Test European Platform (ASTEP). He is the author or coauthor of more than 300 papers published in international journals and conferences, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a fellow of the Société de l’Electricité, de l’Electronique et des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (SEE). Daniela Munteanu is director of research at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). She is a fellow researcher at the Institute for Materials, Microelectronics, and Nanoscience of Provence (IM2NP, UMR CNRS 7334) and has 15 years of experience in characterization, modeling, and simulation of semiconductor devices. Her current research interests include emerging complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices, compact modeling, numerical simulation in the domains of nanoelectronics, and radiation effects on components and circuits. She is also the author or coauthor of more than 200 papers published in international journals and conferences, and has supervised 12 Ph.D theses.

Terrestrial Cosmic Rays and Atmospheric Radiation Background. Detection and Characterization of Atmospheric Neutrons at Terrestrial Level: Neutron Monitors. Natural Radioactivity of Electronic Materials. Alpha-Radiation Metrology in Electronic Materials. Particle Interactions with Matter and Mechanisms of Soft Errors in Semiconductor Circuits. Accelerated Tests. Real-Time (Life) Testing. Modeling and Simulation of Single-Event Effects in Devices and Circuits. Soft-Error Rate (SER) Monte Carlo Simulation Codes. Scaling Effects and Their Implications for Soft Errors. Natural Radiation in Nonvolatile Memories: A Case Study. SOI, FinFET, and Emerging Devices.