Radiation damage effects on detectors and eletronic devices in harsh radiation environment

TL;DR

This paper discusses how radiation damage impacts detectors and electronic devices in harsh environments like space and medical settings, emphasizing the importance of understanding device tolerances to prevent failures.

Contribution

It highlights the significance of radiation tolerance in device design and provides an overview of the challenges faced in harsh radiation environments.

Findings

Different technologies have varying radiation tolerances.

Radiation damage can cause unrecoverable failures.

Understanding device tolerances is crucial for reliability.

Abstract

Radiation damage effects represent one of the limits for technologies to be used in harsh radiation environments as space, radiotherapy treatment, high-energy phisics colliders. Different technologies have known tolerances to different radiation fields and should be taken into account to avoid unexpected failures which may lead to unrecoverable damages to scientific missions or patient health.