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In recent years, the radiation hardness of integrated circuits has drawn more and more attention due to their increasingly important role in electronic systems in space, nuclear, and high-energy particle physics applications. Comprehensive background information regarding this new but rather crucial feature of integrated circuits are discussed in this chapter. Starting with an inspiring story about how integrated circuits pave the way to the Higgs particles, some most interesting potential applications of radiation-hardened electronics are then introduced. It is followed by a detailed explanation of a special implementation, which is the main topic of this book: a radiation-hardened time-to-digital converter for light detection and ranging.
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Gy, the gray, is the SI derived unit of absorbed dose . It is defined as the absorption of 1 J of such energy by 1 kg of matter. 1 Gy = 100 rad. When X-rays and gamma rays are applied on human body, another unit sievert (symbol: Sv) is often used. 1 Gy = 1 Sv. The radiation dose used in a single full-body CT scan is typically 10–30 mSv.
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Cao, Y., Leroux, P., Steyaert, M. (2015). Introduction. In: Radiation-Tolerant Delta-Sigma Time-to-Digital Converters. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11842-0_1
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