REM Oxford at www.radfet.com

Literature References

Home
About us
About consulting
About RADFETs
Radiation Environments
Literature
Purchase

REFERENCES

These literature references have been chosen from several hundred journal papers on RADFETs published since REM put the concept of the "The Space Charge Dosimeter" into the public domain in the 1974 paper cited below. More references in the Handbook [see below].

 

THE HANDBOOK. In it, you will find many more references, websites and descriptions of RADFET dosimetry -  "Handbook of Radiation Effects" (Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 2002). This has a massive bibliography on radiation dosimetry with semiconductors. However, it's chiefly an engineer's guide to managing radiation effects. It describes several hostile environments including space, nuclear events and high-energy accelerators

" ... probably the most readable, ambitious and intelligent work on radiation effects yet published...".

(Current Engineering)

 

For ordering information and a summary, go to the end of this section.

 

INITIAL READING LIST

A.G. Holmes-Siedle, "The Space Charge Dosimeter ‑ General Principles of a New Method of Radiation Dosimetry", Nucl. Instrum. Methods 121, 169 (1974) (original literature reference,  putting MOSFET dosimetry in the public domain and giving priority of invention of many variants to REM).

 

A. Holmes Siedle and L. Adams, "RADFETs: A Review of the Use of Metal‑Oxide‑Silicon Devices as Integrating Dosimeters" Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 28, (2) 235 ‑ 244 (1986) (first general review)

 

A. Holmes‑Siedle, L. Adams and G. Ensell. "MOS dosimeters ‑ improvement of responsivity (dosimetres MOS ‑ amelioration de reponsivite)". RADECS '91, Montpellier, France, 9-12 Sept 1991, IEEE Catalogue No. 91 THO400-2 (first development of thick oxides as sensors).

 

S.J. Kronenberg and G.J. Brucker . "The use of hydrogenous material for sensitizing pMOS dosimeters to neutrons" IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. NS-42,  20-6 [also see pp33-40]   (February 1995)   (personnel dosimetry for troops or emergency personnel operating in a contaminaed zone).

 

 

R.C. Hughes. “Theory of response of radiation sensing field-effect transistors in zero-bias operation”

J. Appl. Phys., 60 (3) 1216-7 (1986) ( theory of the physics of a dielectric under radiation; first use of the name “RADFET” ).

 

APPLICATIONS - MEDICINE, SPACE etc 

R.C. Hughes, D. Huffman, J.V. Snelling, T.E. Zipperian, A.J. Ricco and C.A. Kelsey, "Miniature Radiation Dosimeter for in vivo Radiation  Measurements", Int. J. Radiation Oncology Biol. Phys, 14, 963-7 (1988) (first medical application).

 

D.J. Gladstone, L.M. Chin and A.G. Holmes ‑ Siedle, "  MOSFET Radiation Detectors used as Patient Radiation Dose Monitors during Radiotherapy", Paper S3, 33rd Ann. Mtg. Am, Assoc. of Physicists in Medicine, San Francisco, July  21-25 1991 (external beam sensor; first ever internal needle probe).

 

A.B. Rosenfeld, M.L. Lerch, T. Kron, E. Brauer-Krisch, A. Bravin, A. Holmes-Siedle and B.J. Allen (2001). "Feasibility study of online high-spatial-resolution MOSFET dosimetry in static and pulsed X-ray radiation fields". IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, NS-48 (6) 2061-8 (December 2001) (the micron resolution of dose profiles and the use of a new reader).

 

P. Scalchi and P. Francescon (1998). Calibration of a MOSFET Detection System for 6-MV in-vivo Dosimetry. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics,. 40, (4)  987-93 ( l998.)

(total body irradiation)

 

P.H. Halvorsen, “Dosimetric evaluation of a new design MOSFET in-vivo dosimeter,” Med. Phys. (in press 2005).(recent medical application - a one-dose sensor and a pocket reader system).

 

R. A. Price, C Benson M.J. Joyce and K. Rogers (2004)."Development of a RADFET linear array for intracavitary in vivo dosimetry during external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy". IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. T-NS 51 (4) 1420--6 (Aug 2004). (multiple array suitable as rectal probe) 

 

SPACE APPLICATIONS AND THE MARS MISSION

 

 ESA'S "AURORA" PROGRAMME.  This programme has initiated a Dossier of Enabling Technologies for the Mars programme and this includes radiation detection. A period of further development of sensors offers itself in the form of the ten-year AURORA technology development period, including many unmanned sample-return and manned spacecraft technology proving flights in which radiation counters and dosimeters can be included.

 

BIRA'05.

REM and BIRA [Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium]worked in a team study of the Human Mars Mission (HMM) with other experts on space missions and human radiation risk. Details of the study reports are available online and in several scientific papers :

http://space-env.esa.int/R_and_D/PN-Radiation.html [ Under "REMSIM" CLICK ON "Radiation hazard and Space Weather warning system":   http://space-env.esa.int/R_and_D/TN5.pdf ]

 

Foullon C., Crosby N.B. and Heynderickx D., “Towards Interplanetary Space Weather: Strategies for Manned Missions to Mars”, Space Weather Journal, Vol. 3, No. 7, S07004, 2005.

 

N. Crosby, C. Foullon, A. Holmes-Siedle, D. Heynderickx . "Mission to Mars: Interplanetary Space Weather and the Scientific Issues",  Proceedings of European Solar Physics Meeting-11, Session 6,  "Coronal Mass Ejections and Space Weather",

 

Foullon C., Crosby N.B. and Heynderickx D., “Towards Interplanetary Space Weather: Strategies for Manned Missions to Mars”, Space Weather Journal, Vol. 3, No. 7, S07004, 2005. http://wis.kuleuven.be/cpa/spm11.php .

 

the scientific paper below is on-line at a Springer site::

Cougnet C., Crosby N.B., Eckersley S., Foullon C., Guarnieri V., Guatelli S., Heynderickx D., Holmes-Siedle A., Lobascio C., Masiello S., Nieminen P., Parisi G., Parodi P., Perino M.A., Pia M.G., Rampini R., Spillantini P., Tamburini V. and Tracino E., “Radiation Exposure and Mission Strategies for Interplanetary Manned Missions (REMSIM)”, Earth, Moon, and Planets, 2005, ISSN: 0167-9295 (Paper) 1573-0794 (Online at  …..

http://www.springerlink.com/(gx1bbvqq3gokr5ungj2raq45)/app/home/issue.asp?referrer=parent&backto=journal,1,35;linkingpublicationresults,1:100258,1

and

http://www.springerlink.com/(gx1bbvqq3gokr5ungj2raq45)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,7,77;journal,1,35;linkingpublicationresults,1:100258,1

 

Foullon, C., A. Holmes-Siedle, N.B. Crosby, and D. Heynderickx (2004), Radiation Hazard and Space Weather Warning System, work-package in ESA study on Radiation Exposure and Mission Strategies for Interplanetary Manned Missions (REMSIM), ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands.

 

C. Foullon is a researcher in the Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

N.B. Crosby and D. Heynderickx are researchers at the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium. A. Holmes-Siedle is Director of REM Oxford Ltd and consultant to Brunel University.

 

HMM (2004), by ESA. "CDF study report - Human Missions to Mars (HMM)". ESTEC CDF20(A).(March 2004).

 

 INSTRUMENTS FOR SPACE AND HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS

Adams, L. and  Holmes-Siedle, A. G.   (1978). The development of an MOS dosimetry unit for space. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, NS-25, 1607-1611 (1978)

 

Adams, L., Harboe‑Sorensen, R., Holmes ‑ Siedle, A. G., Ward, A. K. and Bull, R. (1991).  Measurement of SEU and total dose in geostationary orbit under normal and solar flare conditions. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.  NS‑38 (6) 1686-92 (Dec 1991)

  

Buehler, M.,  Holmes-Siedle, A. G.,  Caines, C., .Carmichael, C.  and Martin, D.  (1996). Stacked p-FET dosimeter for the STRV-2 MWIR detector. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, NS-43, 2679-86 (1996).

 

B. Camanzi, A.G.Holmes-Siedle and A.K. McKemey (2001). “The dose mapping system for the electromagnetic calorimeter of the BaBar experiment at SLAC”. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 457,  476-86.  (first use in GeV particle physics).

 

C. Chuang, L. Verhey, P.Xia (2003). Investigation of the use of MOSFET for clinical IMRT dosimetric verification. Med. Phys. 29(6): 1109-1115, 2002.

 

Coenen, S. and Decreton, M.  (1994). RIT 3 Gamma Irradiation Experiment, Irradiation Report, RADFET Transistors.  (Report No. TELEMAN/ENTOREL/MOL/3/19 (January 1994).

 

Conneely, C., O’Connell, B., Hurley, P., Lane, W. and  Adams, L.  (1998). Strategy for millirad sensitivity in pMOS dosimeters. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 45(3). 1475-1480. (1998).

 

A. Holmes-Siedle (1996). "Robot-mountable dosimeter: a protection for machines in nuclear plants against radiation failure". 2nd World Automation Congress, Montpellier, France, May 1996.

 

R.C. Hughes (2003)." Smart Sensor Networks for CounterTerrorism", Smart Sensors Session, Sensors Expo, June 2-5, 2003 Chicago, IL

 

S.J.Kim, J.W. Min, Y.H Shin and J. Seon (2002).Model data comparison of total dose experiment on KITSAT-1. Transactions on Nuclear Science. NS49 (6) 2818-23 (Dec 2002).

 

F.Ravotti, B. Camanzi, M.Glaser, M.Moll, A.G. Holmes-Siedle and Ch. Ilgner. "Response of RadFET dosimeters to high fluences of fast neutrons". submitted to NSS Conference Rome Sept 2004, accepted by IEEE T-NS for conference issue.

 

SPACE RADIATION - BACKGROUND INFORMATION.

E.R. Benton and E.V. Benton (2001)."Space radiation dosimetry in low-Earth orbit and beyond". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B  184  255-94 (2001).

 

Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics at NASA's GSFC
MAINTAINS A USEFUL GLOSSARY OF TERMS RELEVANT TO THE DEEP-SPACE ENVIRONMENT [FLARES, COSMIC RAYS, INTERPLANETARY AND PLANETARY SCIENCE MISSIONS ETC.]
Questions and comments to:
chlc@cosmicra.gsfc.nasa.gov

 

NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS AND VIRTUAL REALITY

RADVIS04. By the Halden OECD Reactor team, Norway. Methods used in terrestrial nuclear industry for work practice optimisation (Virtual Reality tools) are being further developed for space applications:      http://www.external.hrp.no/vr/products/radvis/info/index.html

 

Brucker, G. J., Kronenberg, S. and Jordan, T. (1993). Tactical army dosimeter based on p-MOS single and dual gate insulators. Proceedings of RADECS’93, St Malo, September 1993, France. IEEE Catalogue No. 93-TH-0616 pp 56-62

 

end of literature references.  Details of Handbook follow.

 

Handbook of Radiation Effects | | Second Edition 

 by

Andrew Holmes-Siedle,  Technical Director, REM Oxford Ltd. and  Consultant to Brunel University

and

Len Adams, Honorary Professor Associate, Brunel University and Senior Consultant to Spur Electron

 

This revised second edition of a popular handbook for engineers describes the important relationship between 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. At the core of this book is a discussion of the impact of these environments on the devices used in computing, data processing and communication. While unashamedly oriented to the engineer-designer and manager, with descriptions in a highly readable form, there is no compromise in physical accuracy in the description of high-energy radiation and the effects it produces, such as electronic failure, coloration and the decay of strength. A great breadth of technical data, such as may be needed to make quick decisions, is presented, with literature references and a compendium of websites which have been tested and used by the authors.

 

Reviews `Compiled by two highly experienced researchers ... Advanced scientific training is not required for understanding ... Excellent collection of references for each of the 15 chapters.' quoted from "Choice".

 

'...probably the most readable, ambitious and intelligent work on radiation effects yet published...two of the most fertile and fruitful research scholars working in the field....' quoted from "Current Engineering".

 

Contents (new topics in bold type): Radiation, Physics and Measurement; Radiation Environments including human risks from the terrestrial environment; Response of Materials and Devices to Radiation including defect cascades; Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) Devices including dual dielectrics; Bipolar Transistors; Diodes, Solar Cells, Optoelectronics; Power Devices; Optical Media including colour centres; Polymers and Organics including electronic films; Shielding; Computer Methods; Radiation Testing; Radiation-Hardening of Parts; Equipment and Hardness Assurance; Appendices: Useful general and geophysical data; Useful radiation data including Ci-Bq chart; Useful data on materials; Bibliography of RADFET dosimetry; New  depth-dose curves for typical satellite orbits; Degradation in polymers; Compendium of Websites.

Over 500 new references.

 

In September 1991, Dr. Holmes-Siedle was awarded the

Medal of the University of Montpellier

In July 2001, Dr. Holmes-Siedle was awarded the

IEEE Radiation Effects Award.

 500 pages, 3 halftones, 160 line figures, hardback 

         ISBN 0-19-850733-X   

 publisher: Oxford University Press 2002

MAIL ORDERS: in USA: www.icsrad.co

 

 in ENGLAND: order from REM Oxford

 mail order price 110 US Dollars or 72 GB Pounds

incl. postage and packing from:

RADIATION EXPERIMENTS AND MONITORS (R.E.M. OXFORD   64A ACRE END ST., EYNSHAM, WITNEY OX29 4PD, ENGLAND   Phone  +44 18 65 88 00 50 . fax  +44  18 65 88 00 30   email: holmes.siedle@ieee.org

 

opf04gen.doc                           20 April 2004                          ahs

 

REM Oxford Ltd, UK info@radfet.com