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Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Image Sensors for Harsh Radiation Environments

The space industry has experienced substantial growth in recent years, leading to rapid advancements in space exploration and space-based technologies. Consequently, the study of electronics and sensor performance in extreme environments has become crucial ...

EPFL2024

Transport of dust across the Solar System: Constraints on the spatial origin of individual micrometeorites from cosmic-ray exposure

Reto Georg Trappitsch, Xuan Li

The origin of micrometeorites (MMs) from asteroids and comets is well-established, but the relative contribution from these two classes remains poorly resolved. Likewise, determining the precise origin of individual MMs is an open challenge. Here, cosmic-r ...

Royal Soc2024

Search for relativistic fractionally charged particles in space

Jennifer Maria Frieden, Chiara Perrina, Jian Wang, Zhirui Xu, Yi Zhang, Siyuan Wang, Songmei Wu, Junqiu Liu, Johan Juul Chang, Jie Chen

More than a century after the performance of the oil drop experiment, the possible existence of fractionally charged particles (FCPs) still remains unsettled. The search for FCPs is crucial for some extensions of the Standard Model in particle physics. Mos ...

American Physical Society2022

Experimental and Numerical Characterization of a New 45 kWel Multisource High-Flux Solar Simulator

Sophia Haussener, Gaël Jean Clément Levêque

The performance of a new high-flux solar simulator consisting of 18 × 2.5 kWel radiation modules has been evaluated. Grayscale images of the radiative flux distribution at the focus are acquired for each module individually using a water-cooled Lambertian ...

Optical Society of America2016

Methylammonium Lead Iodide for Efficient X-ray Energy Conversion

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Bálint Náfrádi

We report on photocurrent generation by X-ray irradiation in methylammonium lead iodide CH3NH3PbI3 single crystals. We observed 75% of charge collection efficiency in millimeter sized samples. This efficiency is partially due to the high photon absorption ...

American Chemical Society2015

Proton-Radiation Tolerance of Silicon and SU-8 as Structural Materials for High-Reliability MEMS

Herbert Shea, Antonia Neels, Tobias Bandi, Alex Dommann

The susceptibility of single-crystal silicon and SU-8 resonators to proton-radiation induced degradation was investigated. Both materials are in widespread use for microsystems structures, thus the stability of the mechanical properties must be ensured ove ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Measurements and Monte Carlo calculations with the extended-range Bonner sphere spectrometer at high-energy mixed fields

The use of spectrometry to provide information for neutron radiation protection has become an increasingly important activity over recent years. The need for spectral data arises because neither area survey instruments nor personal dosimeters give the corr ...

EPFL2004

The fate of mass selected silver clusters deposited on Pd(100)

Wolfgang Harbich, René Monot

We present a new experiment to monitor ionized atom and mass selected cluster depositions in real time using specular reflected thermal helium scattering. Monomer Ag ions with an incident kinetic energy of E/sub dep/=20 eV and E/sub dep/=95 eV create surfa ...

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