UCLouvain

CRC: Centre de Recherche du Cyclotron

Located in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)20 km from Brussels airport. Cyclotron (K=110 MeV).One irradiation line for AIDA-2020 usersHIF: Heavy ion irradiation facility

HIF: Heavy Ion irradiation facility

Installation build to measure the response of electronic components to single event effects.

Two heavy ions “cocktails” covering a wide range of LET and ranges, allowing to fully characterize SEE response of electronic components.

Cocktail No 1: High LET

*M/Q*	*Ion*	*DUT energy [MeV]*	*Range [µm Si]*	*LET [MeV/mg/cm²]*
5	⁴⁰ Ar ⁸⁺	151	40	15.9
5	²⁰ Ne ⁴⁺	78	45	6.4
5	¹⁵ N ³⁺	60	59	3.3
4.96	¹²⁴ Xe ²⁵⁺	420	37	67.7
4.94	⁸⁴ Kr ¹⁷⁺	305	39	40.4

Cocktail No 2: High penetration

*M/Q*	*Ion*	*DUT energy [MeV]*	*Range [µm Si]*	*LET [MeV/mg/cm²]*
3.25	¹³C ⁴⁺	131	292	1.1
3.14	²²Ne ⁷⁺	235	216	3
3.33	⁴⁰ Ar¹²⁺	372	117	10.2
3.22	⁵⁸ Ni¹⁸⁺	567	100	20.4
3.32	⁸³ Kr²⁵⁺	756	92	32.6
3.54	¹²⁴ Xe ³⁵⁺	995	73.1	62.5

Both cocktails have close M/Q (~5 for the high LET and ~ 3.3 for the high penetration), allowing a fast ion changing within the same cocktail just modifying slightly the magnetic field and/or the RF. The beam flux is variable between a few particles/s.cm² and 1·10⁴particles/s.cm². The beam flux can be modified from the user station; this is done with injection grids (for a constant attenuation factor) or by inflector bias variations (for intermediates values). The Homogeneity is ± 10 % on a 25 mm diameter.All irradiations are done in vacuum and for most of the ions naked chips are needed.

Please contact the beam line responsible person to obtain a detailed description of the mechanical constraints and the available feed-through.

Reimbursement Information

The claim form must be filled in and returned.

Travel costs for two people and hotel costs for one or two nights may be covered by AIDA-2020 for each project approved as well as the cost of shipping samples.

Contact

For further technical information please contact Eduardo Cortina.