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
2018

Space Radiation Effects in Electronics

Rad-hard Semiconductor Memories. River Publishers Series in Electronic Materials and Devices.
Dilillo, Luigi
Bosser, Alexandre
Javanainen, Arto
Virtanen, Ari
Publication
2017

Energy loss and straggling of MeV Si ions in gases

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms.
Vockenhuber, C.
Arstila, Kai
Jensen, J.
Julin, Jaakko
Kettunen, Heikki
Laitinen, Mikko
Rossi, Mikko
Sajavaara, Timo
Thöni, M.
Whitlow, H. J.

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