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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
Jincan Zhang, Lei Cao, Min Liu, Bo Liu, Lin Cheng
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 195 | Number 2 | February 2021 | Pages 173-184
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295639.2020.1798679
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The gamma irradiation effect in indium phosphide (InP) heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) is studied in this paper. The direct-current (DC) and alternating-current (AC) characteristics are investigated before and after an irradiation dose of 10 Mrad(Si). The main effects of gamma irradiation for InP HBTs are the following: increase of forward Gummel base current at low bias regime, decrease of common emitter collector current, increase of junction capacitances, and decrease of cutoff frequency. The Keysight model is adopted to describe behaviors of InP HBTs including DC and AC behaviors. The Keysight model parameter values are extracted before and after irradiation, in turn to study the physical mechanisms responsible for irradiation-induced degradation in InP HBTs.