Radiation Effects and Industrial Applications

The group specializes in applied research on nuclear- and accelerator-based technology and operates the Radiation Effects Facility, RADEF, for the studies of radiation effects in electronics and related materials. RADEF has been an ESA supported European Component Irradiation Facility (ECIF) since 2005. Since then irradiation tests have been carried out not only for ESA and the Euro­pean space industry, but also for other world leading space organizations (e.g. NASA, JAXA, CNES), institutes, companies and universities.
Mikko Rossi and RADEF beam line
RADiation Effects Facility, RADEF

Table of contents

Research group type
Research group
Core fields of research
Basic natural phenomena and mathematical thinking
Research areas
Nuclear and accelerator based physics
Faculty
Faculty of Mathematics and Science
Department
Department of Physics

Research group description

RADEF’s specialty is to provide high penetration heavy ion cocktail beams, protons in wide energy range and energetic electrons. For these the RADEF group utilizes combination of JYFL's ECR ion sources and K-130 cyclotron, and the LINAC electron accelerator. Because the emerging technologies make integrated circuits more susceptible to radiation, the group is expanding its research activities toward the radiation effects in avionics and ground level systems.

Publications

Publication
2021

Aalto-1, multi-payload CubeSat : Design, integration and launch

Acta Astronautica.
Praks,J.
Mughal, M. Rizwan
Vainio, R.
Janhunen, P.
Envall, J.
Oleynik, P.
Näsilä, A.
Leppinen, H.
Niemelä, P.
Slavinskis, A.
Gieseler, J.
Toivanen, P.
Tikka, T.
Peltola, T.
Bosser, A.
Schwarzkopf, G.
Jovanovic, N.
Riwanto, B.
Kestilä, A.
Punkkinen, A.
Punkkinen, R.
Hedman, H.-P.
Säntti, T.
Lill, J.-O.
Slotte, J.M.K.
Kettunen, H.
Virtanen, A.
Publication
2021

Radiation hardness assurance through system-level testing : risk acceptance, facility requirements, test methodology and data exploitation

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.
Coronetti, Andrea
Garcìa Alìa, Rubén
Budroweit, Jan
Rajkowski, Tomasz
Da Costa Lopes, Israel
Niskanen, Kimmo
Söderström, Daniel
Cazzaniga, Carlo
Ferraro, Rudy
Danzeca, Salvatore
Mekki, Julien
Manni, Florent
Dangla, David
Virmontois, Cedric
Kerboub, Nourdine
Koelpin, Alexander
Saigné, Frederic
Wang, Pierre
Pouget, Vincent
Touboul, Antoine
Javanainen, Arto
Kettunen, Heikki
Coq Germanicus, Rosine

Research group

Group leaders

Heikki Kettunen

Staff Scientist (teachresea)
Arto Javanainen

Arto Javanainen

Senior Researcher

Members

Mikko Rossi

Mikko Rossi

Laboratory Engineer

Jukka Jaatinen

Laboratory Engineer

Kimmo Niskanen

Postdoctoral Researcher