Handbook of Radiation Effects

Suitable for engineer-designers and other professionals, this practical handbook describes the relationship between high-energy radiation environments, electronic device physics and materials. It presents an account of the problems which arise when high-energy radiation bombards matter, and of engineering methods for solving those problems.
This revised edition of a handbook for engineers fills a gap in the fields of high-energy radiation environments, electronic device physics and materials. It is a straightforward account of the problems which arise when high-energy radiation bombards matter and of engineering methods for solving those problems. Radiation effects are a problem encountered in the use of highly engineered materials such as semiconductors, optics and polymers. The finely-tuned properties of these materials may change drastically when exposed to a radiation environment such as a beam of X-rays or electrons, the space environment or the "hadrons" in CERN's new collider. All of these environments and several more are described. The impact of these environments on microelectronics in computing, data processing and communication is the core of this book