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A Tutorial on Cosmic Radiation and its effects
on the Semiconductor Industry
Each day a collection of particles from our Sun, our Galaxy, and
our Universe shower the Earth. The Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis
display beautiful facades which disguise potentially catastrophic
damage to power grids and electronics systems. In this talk, I
present a tutorial on cosmic radiation in the world around us.
Radiation sourced from gamma ray bursts, our Sun, and even within
our semiconductor packaging materials, spurs new areas of research
in fault tolerant computer chip circuits and computer system design.
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