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Texas A&M welcomes uranium conversion research
The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) has signed a research agreement with Quantum Leap Energy (QLE) “to advance and de-risk the commercial production of high-purity uranium hexafluoride (UF6).”
QLE is an Austin, Texas–based subsidiary of ASP Isotopes (ASPI), which is developing an isotope enrichment platform for applications in nuclear energy, nuclear medicine, and semiconductors. QLE specializes in the uranium conversion step of the nuclear fuel cycle—the conversion of yellowcake uranium concentrate (U3O8) into UF6 prior to enrichment.
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.