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A. Akkerman and J. Barak (2006). New Partition Factor Calculations for Evaluating the Damage of Low Energy Ions in Silicon,    IEEE Trans. on Nucl. Sci. vol. 53, 3667; doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2006.884382.

 

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ASTM E722-19 (2019). Standard Practice for Characterizing Neutron Fluence Spectra in Terms of an Equivalent Monoenergetic Neutron Fluence for Radiation-Hardness Testing of Electronics (https://www.astm.org/catalogsearch/result/?q=E722-19); see also previously published standards: ASTM E722–09 (2009); ASTM E722-14 (2014).

 

S. Bartocci, R. Battiston, W. J. Burger et al., Galactic Cosmic-Ray Hydrogen Spectra in the 40–250 MeV Range Measured by the High-energy Particle Detector (HEPD) on board the CSES-01 Satellite between 2018 and 2020, Astrophys. J. 901, 8; https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abad3e

 

C. Baur, M. Gervasi, P. Nieminen, S. Pensotti, P.G. Rancoita, M. Tacconi, (2014)
NIEL dose dependence for solar cells irradiated with electrons and protons, Proc. of the 14th ICATPP, September 23--27 2013, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, S. Giani, C. Leroy, L. Price, P.G. Rancoita and R. Ruchti, Editors, World Scientific, Singapore, 698-713; ISBN:
978-981-4603-15-7;
http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789814603164_0111
http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.0402

 

 

E.Borchi, C.Bertrand, C.Leroy, M.Bruzzi, C.Furetta, R.Paludetto, P.G.Rancoita, L.Vismara and P.Giubellino, DLTS measurements of majority carriers traps in neutron irradiated n-type silicon detectors, Nucl.Instr. and Meth.in Phys. Res. A 279 (1989), 277; https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(89)91093-0

 

M.J. Boschini, C. Consolandi, M. Gervasi, S.Giani, D.Grandi, V. Ivanchenko and P.G. Rancoita, (2010)
Geant4-based application development for NIEL calculation in the Space Radiation Environment, Proc. of the 11th ICATPP Conference, October 5-9 2009, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, World Scientific, Singapore, 698-708, IBSN: 10-981-4307-51-3;
http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789814307529_0113

   

 

M.J. Boschini, C. Consolandi, M. Gervasi, S. Giani, D. Grandi, V. Ivantchenko, S. Pensotti, P.G. Rancoita, M. Tacconi, (2011), Nuclear and Non-Ionizing Energy-Loss for Coulomb Scattered Particle from Low Energy up to relativistic regime in Space Radiation Environment, Proc. of the 12th ICATPP Conference, October 7-8 2010, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, World Scientific, Singapore, 9-23, IBSN: 978-981-4329-02-6;
http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789814329033_0002
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M.J. Boschini, C. Consolandi, P.G. Fallica, M. Gervasi, D. Grandi, M. Mazzillo, S. Pensotti, P.G. Rancoita, D. Sanfilippo,  M. Tacconi and G. Valvo, Electrical Characterization of SiPM as a Function of Test Frequency and Temperature, Proc. of the 13th ICATPP Conference on Cosmic Rays for Particle and Astroparticle Physics, October 3--7 (2011), Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, S. Giani, C. Leroy, L. Price, P.G. Rancoita and R. Ruchri, Editors, World Scientific, Singapore (2012), 663, ISBN: 978-981-4405-06-5; arXiv 1112.0107

 

M.J. Boschini, C. Consolandi, M. Gervasi, S. Giani, D. Grandi, V. Ivanchenko, P. Nieminem, S. Pensotti, P.G. Rancoita and M. Tacconi, (2012),
Nuclear and Non-Ionizing Energy-Loss of electrons with low and relativistic energies in materials and space environment, Proc. of the 13th ICATPP Conference, October 3-7 2011, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy, World Scientific, Singapore, 961-982, IBSN: 978-981-4405-06-5;
http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789814405072_0147
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.4042v4.pdf

 

 

 M.J. Boschini, C. Consolandi, M. Gervasi, S. Giani, D. Grandi, V. Ivanchenko, P. Nieminem, S. Pensotti, P.G. Rancoita, M. Tacconi, (2013),
An expression for the Mott cross section of electrons and positrons on nuclei with Z up to 118, Rad. Phys. Chem. 90, 39-66; doi: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2013.04.020,
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http://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.5871v1.pdf

 

 

Boschini et al (2024), Fast and accurate evaluation of deep-space galactic cosmic ray fluxes with HelMod-4/CUDA, M. J. Boschini, G. Cavallotto, S. Della Torre, M. Gervasi, G. La Vacca, P. G. Rancoita, M. Tacconi, Advances in Space Research, April 2024, In Press; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2024.04.021

 

M.Bosetti, N.Croitoru, C.Furetta, C.Leroy, S.Pensotti, P.G.Rancoita, M.Rattaggi, M.Redaelli, A.Seidman, DLTS measurements of Energetic levels generated in silicon detectors, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. A 361 (1995), 461--465; doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/0168-9002(95)00277-4

 

R. Campesato, C. Baur, M. Casale, M. Gervasi, E. Gombia, E. Greco, A. Kingma, P.G. Rancoita, D. Rozza, M. Tacconi (2018), NIEL DOSE and DLTS Analyses on Triple and Single Junction solar cells irradiated with electrons and protons, Proceedings of 2018 IEEE 7th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (WCPEC) (A Joint Conference of 45th IEEE PVSC, 28th PVSEC & 34th EU PVSEC), Waikoloa, Hawaii, June 10-15, 2018; Publication Year: 2018, p. 3768-3772, doi: 10.1109/PVSC.2018.8548237; available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11583

 

R. Campesato, C. Baur, M. Casale, M. Gervasi, E. Gombia, E. Greco, A. Kingma, P.G. Rancoita, D. Rozza, M. Tacconi (2018), Effects of irradiation on Triple and Single Junction InGaP/GaAs/Ge solar cells, Proceedings of the 35th European PV Solar Energy Conference, Brussels, 24-28 September 2018, 959-964, doi: 10.4229/35thEUPVSEC20182018-4CO.5.4; available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07157 

 

R. Campesato, C. Baur, M. Carta, M. Casale, D. Chiesa, M. Gervasi, E. Gombia, E. Greco, A. Kingma, M. Nastasi, E. Previtali, P.G. Rancoita, D. Rozza, E. Santoro, M. Tacconi (2019),  NIEL Dose Analysis on triple and single junction InGaP/GaAs/Ge solar cells irradiated with electrons, protons and neutrons, Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 46th Photovoltaic Specialist Conference (PVSC), June 16-21 (2019), Chicago (USA), Book Series: IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, pages 2381-2384, doi: 10.1109/PVSC40753.2019.8980581; available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08900

 

D. Codegoni, A.Colder, N.Croitoru, P.D’Angelo, M. De Marchi, G. Fallica, S. Leonardi, M. Levalois, S. Marcolomgo, P. Marie, R. Modica, P.G. Rancoita and A. Seidman, Investigation of Irradiated Monolithic Transistors for Space Applications, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 217 (2004), 65; doi https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2003.08.044

 

A. Colder, N. Croitoru, P. D’Angelo, M. De Marchi, G. Fallica, S. Leonardi, M. Levalois, S. Marcolongo, P. Marie, R. Modica, P.G. Rancoita and A. Seidman, Study of Radiation Effects on Bipolar Transistors, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 179 (2001), 397; doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-583X(01)00582-1

 

C. Consolandi, P.D’Angelo, G. Fallica, R. Modica, R. Mangoni, S. Pensotti and P.G. Rancoita, (2006), Systematic Investigation of Monolithic Bipolar Transistors Irradiated with Neutrons, Heavy Ions and Electrons for Space Applications, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. in Phys. Res. B 252 (2006), 276, doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2006.08.018, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168583X0600913X

 

N.Croitoru, R.Dahan, P.G.Rancoita, M.Rattaggi, G.Rossi and A.Seidman, Study of resistivity and majority carrier concentration of silicon detectors damaged by neutron irradiation up to 1016n/cm2, Nucl.Instr. and Meth.in Phys. Res. B 124 (1997), 542—548: doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0168-583X(97)00055-4

 

S. Della Torre, G. Cavallotto, D. Besozzi, M. Gervasi, G. La Vacca, M. S. Nobile and P.G. Rancoita (2023), Advantages of GPU-accelerated approach for solving the Parker equation in the heliosphere, POS  (ICRC2023) 1290;https://pos.sissa.it/444/1290/pdf

 

[ECSS-E-ST-10-12C] European Cooperation for Space Standardization, "Methods for the calculation of radiation received and its effects, and a policy for design margins", 15 November 2008.

 

[ECSS-E-HB-10-12A] European Cooperation for Space Standardization, "Calculation of radiation and its effects and margin policy handbook", 17 December 2010.

 

[ECSS-E-ST-10-04C Rev. 1] European Cooperation for Space Standardization, on "Space Environment: Technical Report" ECSS (2020);

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G.Golan, E.Rabinovich, A.Inberg, A.Axelevitch, G.Lubarsky, P.G.Rancoita, M. Demarchi, A.Seidman and N.Croitoru, Inversion phenomenon as a result of junction damages in neutron irradiated silicon detectors, Microelectronics Reliability 41 (2000), 67; doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0026-2714(00)00212-2ttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0026-2714(00)00212-2

 

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P. Jiggens, D. Heynderickx, I. Sandberg, P. Truscott, O. Raukunen and R. Vainio (2018). Updated Model of the Solar Energetic Proton Environment in Space, J. Space Weather Space Clim. 8: A31 (22pp);  https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2018010

 

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I. Jun (2017), Private communication regarding hadronic NIEL contribution. See also the web page "Hadronic NIEL contribution for protons and alpha particles".

 

C. Leroy and P.G. Rancoita (2007), Particle Interaction and Displacement Damage in Silicon Devices operated in Radiation Environments Reports on Progress in Physics 70, 493-625, doi:10.1088/0034-4885/70/4/R0
http://iopscience.iop.org/0034-4885/70/4/R01/

 

 

 

C. Leroy and P.G. Rancoita (2011), Principles of Radiation Interaction in Matter and Detection - 3rd Edition -, World Scientific, Singapore, ISBN-978-981-4360-51-7;
http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/8200

 

 

 

 

C. Leroy and P.G. Rancoita (2012), Silicon Solid State Devices and Radiation Detection, World Scientific, Singapore, ISBN-978-981-4390-0-0;
http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/8383.

 

 

 

  

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https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9167#t=aboutBook; it is also partially accessible via google books.




 

 

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