Heavy ion microscopy of single event upsets in CMOS SRAMs

Conference · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:6863812

Metzger, S; Dreute, J; Heinrich, W; Roecher, H ^[1]; Fischer, B E ^[2]; Harboe-Soerensen, R; Adams, L ^[3]

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1. Univ.-GH-Siegen (Germany)
2. Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung mbH, Darmstadt (Germany)
3. ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk (Netherlands)

The single event upset (SEU) imaging has been applied at the GSI heavy ion microprobe to determine the sensitivity of integrated circuits (IC) to heavy ion irradiation. This method offers the possibility to directly image those parts of an IC which are sensitive to ion-induced malfunctions. By a 3-dimensional simulation of charge collection across p-n-micro-junctions the authors can predict SEU cross-sections. For a MHS65162 2k [times] 8bit CMOS SRAM they found two regions per bit with different sensitivity and measured a total cross-section of (71[+-]18)[mu]m[sup 2] for a bitflip per cell and simulated 60[mu]m[sup 2] with an argon beam of 1.4 MeV/nucl. (LET of 19.7 MeV/mg/cm[sup 2]).

• OSTI ID: 6863812
• Report Number(s): CONF-930953-; CODEN: IETNAE; TRN: 95-004948
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States), Vol. 41:3Pt1; Conference: RADECS '93: 2nd European conference on radiations and their effects on components and systems, Saint Malo (France), 13-16 Sep 1993; ISSN 0018-9499
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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