Uni Cal Nexus Lab activities Calogero Pace Nexus

Uni. Cal Nexus Lab activities Calogero Pace

Nexus Lab people Prof. Calogero Pace Contract researchers Gianluca Borgese (INFN, electr. eng. ) Letizia Fragomeni (electr. eng. ) Andrea Solano (INFN, electr. eng. ) Ph. D students Jorge Hernandez (electr. eng. ) Nicolò Marchese (energy&nuclear eng. ) Daniela Fiore (energy&nuclear eng. ) Contract technicians Sebastiano Meduri (automation eng. ) Maurizio Iazzolino (computer science) Joseph Beltrano (INFN, physics)

Current International Projects • R 2 RAM (H 2020 Call), U. L. Coordination • E 2 COGa. N (ENIAC JU) • D 2 SENSE, U. L. Coordination (Italy-Israel bilateral call) Past Projects • E 2 SG (ENIAC JU), STMicroelectronics Contract • RHESSA, Coordination (Italy-Israel bilateral call) • CISSA, Coordination, (Italy-Israel bilateral call)

Palermo 60 Co g-ray irradiation facility source Radiation profile

Palermo g-ray irradiation facility Iso-Dose contours on the workbench

Set-up of the equipment for active-mode sample irradiation Irradiator workbench Pre-chamber

Set-up of the equipment for active-mode sample irradiation Shield hole (F=30 mm) 80: 1 attenuation factor Effect on a glass sheet

Gamma-rays CIS radiation tests

Gamma-rays detection on CIS 5. 2 mm square 300 x 200 pixel image

Jyvaskla heavy ions irradiation

Test chips for the selected CMOS technology Resistors test structures Evaluation of single resistor value vs dose Evaluation of resistors mismatch vs dose MOSFETs test structures Vth IDS-VGS Subthreshold IDS-VDS, leakage IGS-VGS Evaluation of TID effects on devices matching Etc.

Rad-tolerant by design devices Standard layout transistors Enclosed layout transistors Ring interdigitated layout transistors

Test chips for the selected CMOS technology

Testchip For each section: - Vddpad - Vddcore - Gnd - 9 digital pads - 4 analog pads - 14 analog pads connected to the rad-hard frame for measuring integrated devices Radhard frame STD frame

Testchip: pads connection Input pad in series with bid. pad in output mode Bid. pad in series with bid. pad with enable pins connected to input pads Input pad in series with bid. pad with enable pin connected to an input pad Analog pads in series

Schematic simulation results: digital pads Out_d 1 Out_d 2 Out_d 3

Ma. Te. Ri. A Labs organized in three progressive levels First level. STAR (Southern Europe Thomson Back-Scattering Source for Applied Research) equipped with the beam-line µTomo. Second level laboratories: 1. Preparation and characterization 2. Characterization of the mechanical and physical properties 3. Modeling and simulation 4. Prototyping 5. Advanced spectroscopy Third level. Network of existent Uni. Cal departmental laboratories

Thomson back-scattering X-ray source

Examples of various X-ray beams in Phase 1

STAR – The Electron Machine (65 Me. V, upgrade to 100 Me. V)

Hangar and Bunker view

Synergy with the research institution of the Uni. Cal Campus Engineering 4 Dpt. Ad. R CNR STAR INFN GRUPPO COLLEGATO Physics Ma. Te. Ri. A Labs

View of the STAR source location

STAR hangar layout

Status of STAR Infrastructure as of today First X-ray photon beam expected by 2017

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