1 Spallation Neutron Source Science Center, Dongguan 523803, China; 2 Instituteof High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS), Beijing 100049, China; 3 School of Microelectronics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China; 4 State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, Bejing 100049, China
Abstract To predict the soft error rate for applications, it is essential to study the energy dependence of the single-event-upset (SEU) cross-section. In this work, we present a direct measurement of the SEU cross-section with the Back-n white neutron source at the China Spallation Neutron Source. The measured cross section is consistent with the soft error data from the manufacturer and the result suggests that the threshold energy of the SEU is about 0.5 MeV, which confirms the statement in Iwashita's report that the threshold energy for neutron soft error is much below that of the (n, α) cross-section of silicon. In addition, an index of the effective neutron energy is suggested to characterize the similarity between a spallation neutron beam and the standard atmospheric neutron environment.
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 2032165 and 62004158), the National Key Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Project of China (Grant No. 52127817), the State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics (Grant Nos. SKLPDE-ZZ-201801 and SKLPDE-ZZ-202008), and the Special Funds for Science and Technology Innovation Strategy of Guangdong Province, China (Grant No. 2018A0303130030).
Corresponding Authors:
Zhixin Tan, Yongning He
E-mail: tanzhixin@ihep.ac.cn;yongning@xjtu.edu.cn
Cite this article:
Biao Pei(裴标), Zhixin Tan(谭志新), Yongning He(贺永宁), Xiaolong Zhao(赵小龙), and Ruirui Fan(樊瑞睿) Direct measurement of an energy-dependent single-event-upset cross-section with time-of-flight method at CSNS 2023 Chin. Phys. B 32 020705
[1] Ziegler J F and Lanford W A 1981 J. Appl. Phys.52 4305 [2] Maurice S, Feldman W C, Lawrence D J, Elphic R C, Gasnault O, d'Uston C, Genetay I and Lucey P G 2000 Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets105 20365 [3] Xiao L, Zhu P, Fang G, et al. 2015 Science347 1226 [4] Johansson K, Dyreklev P, Granbom B, et al. 1998 IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science45 2519 [5] Dyer C S, Clucas S N, Sanderson C, Frydland A D and Green R T 2004 IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science51 2817 [6] Iwashita H, Funatsu G, Sato H, et al. 2020 IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science67 2363 [7] Iwashita H, Sato H and Kiyanagi Y 2021 Transactions of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan63 531 [8] Tang J Y, An Q, Bai J B, et al. 2021 Nuclear Science and Techniques32 11 [9] Zhang L, Jing H, Tang J, et al. 2018 Applied Radiation and Isotopes132 212 [10] Chen Y, Luan G, Bao J, et al. 2019 Eur. Phys. J. A55 115 [11] Tan Z, Tang J, Jing H, et al. 2018 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment889 122 [12] Chen H, Feng C, Hu J, et al. 2019 IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science66 2005 [13] Gao K, Yi H, Zhang Q, et al. 2021 Journal of Instrumentation16 P02036 [14] Ni W, Jing H, Zhang L and Ou L 2018 Radiation Physics and Chemistry152 43 [15] Yi H, Wang T F, Li Y, et al. 2020 Journal of Instrumentation15 P03026 [16] Chen W, Guo X, Wang C, et al. 2019 IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science66 856 [17] Xilinx Corp 2021 Device Reliability Report UG116 [18] Xun W, Feng-Qi Z, Wei C, et al. 2019 Acta Phys. Sin68 052901 (in Chinese) [19] Standard J 2006 Measurement and Reporting of Alpha Particle and Terrestrial Cosmic Ray Induced Soft Error in Semiconductor Devices, JESD89A (JEDEC solid state technology associate) [20] Slayman C W 2010 IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science57 3163
Altmetric calculates a score based on the online attention an article receives. Each coloured thread in the circle represents a different type of online attention. The number in the centre is the Altmetric score. Social media and mainstream news media are the main sources that calculate the score. Reference managers such as Mendeley are also tracked but do not contribute to the score. Older articles often score higher because they have had more time to get noticed. To account for this, Altmetric has included the context data for other articles of a similar age.
