THERMIC: a hardened temperature controller for regenerating CMOS circuits exposed to ionizing radiation

Jean-Marc Armani (1) , Alejandro Ureña-Acuña (1) , Philippe Dollfus (2) , Mariem Slimani (1)

1 LFIC - Laboratoire Fiabilité et Intégration de Capteurs
2 C2N - Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies

A Radiation hardened temperature controller intended to regenerate CMOS circuits has been designed using commercial off-the-shelf components. Tested with $^{60}$Co gamma rays, it has shown a radiation hardness greater than 65 kGy. The hardening methodology used to design the temperature controller is validated through these results.

Keywords: instrumentation; nuclear instrumentation; Temperature controller; CMOS component; regeneration; annealing; high temperature; total ionizing dose; ionizing radiation; Resistors; Temperature distribution; defect; gamma-rays; raidiation hardening; Temperature measurement; Heating systems; sensor

Domains: Electronics; Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex]; Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]

Jean-Marc Armani, Alejandro Ureña-Acuña, Philippe Dollfus, Mariem Slimani. THERMIC: a hardened temperature controller for regenerating CMOS circuits exposed to ionizing radiation. Radecs 2018 - 18th European Conference on Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems, Sep 2018, Göteborg, Sweden. ⟨10.1109/RADECS45761.2018.9328696⟩. ⟨cea-03922951⟩