SEU parameters and proton-induced upsets

Abstract

The variation of SEU cross section with incident proton energy and angle of incidence is very sensitive to the thickness of the sensitive volume and the critical charge required for upset. This paper provides a method to determine accurate estimates of these important parameters, the critical charge and the sensitive volume thickness, using simple SEU measurements for a number incident proton energies.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>