1. Calogero Pace UniCal Nexus Lab activities

2. Nexus Lab people Prof. Calogero Pace Contract researchers Gianluca Borgese (INFN, electr. eng.) Letizia Fragomeni (electr. eng.) Andrea Solano (INFN, electr. eng.) PhD students Jorge Hernandez (electr. eng.) Nicolò Marchese (energy&nuclear eng.) Daniela Fiore (energy&nuclear eng.) Contract technicians Sebastiano Meduri (automation eng.) Maurizio Iazzolino (computer science) Joseph Beltrano (INFN, physics)

3. Current International Projects R2RAM (H2020 Call), U.L. Coordination E2COGaN (ENIAC JU) D2SENSE, U.L. Coordination (Italy-Israel bilateral call) Past Projects E2SG (ENIAC JU), STMicroelectronics Contract RHESSA, Coordination (Italy-Israel bilateral call) CISSA, Coordination, (Italy-Israel bilateral call)

4. Palermo g -ray irradiation facility 60 Co source Radiation profile

5. Iso-Dose contours on the workbench Palermo g -ray irradiation facility

6. Set-up of the equipment for active-mode sample irradiation Irradiator workbench Pre-chamber

7. Shield hole (=30mm) 80:1 attenuation factor Effect on a glass sheet Set-up of the equipment for active-mode sample irradiation

8. Gamma-rays CIS radiation tests

9. Gamma-rays detection on CIS 5.2m square 300x200 pixel image

10. Jyvaskla heavy ions irradiation

11. Test chips for the selected CMOS technology Resistors test structures Evaluation of single resistor value vs dose Evaluation of resistors mismatch vs dose MOSFETs test structures V th I DS -V GS Subthreshold I DS -V DS, leakage I GS -V GS Evaluation of TID effects on devices matching Etc.

12. Rad-tolerant by design devices Standard layout transistors Enclosed layout transistors Ring interdigitated layout transistors

13. Test chips for the selected CMOS technology

14. Testchip For each section: -Vddpad -Vddcore -Gnd -9 digital pads -4 analog pads -14 analog pads connected to the rad-hard frame for measuring integrated devices Rad- hard frame STD frame

15. Testchip: pads connection Input pad in series with bid. pad in output mode Input pad in series with bid. pad with enable pin connected to an input pad Bid. pad in series with bid. pad with enable pins connected to input pads Analog pads in series

16. Schematic simulation results: digital pads Out_d1 Out_d2 Out_d3

18. MaTeRiA Labs organized in three progressive levels First level. STAR (Southern Europe Thomson Back-Scattering Source for Applied Research) equipped with the beam-line µTomo. Second level laboratories: 1.Preparation and characterization 2.Characterization of the mechanical and physical properties 3.Modeling and simulation 4.Prototyping 5.Advanced spectroscopy Third level. Network of existent UniCal departmental laboratories

19. Thomson back-scattering X-ray source

20. Examples of various X-ray beams in Phase 1

21. STAR – The Electron Machine (65 MeV, upgrade to 100 MeV)

22. Hangar and Bunker view

23. STAR MaTeRiA Labs AdR CNR Physics Engineering 4 Dpt. Engineering 4 Dpt. Synergy with the research institution of the UniCal Campus INFN GRUPPO COLLEGATO INFN GRUPPO COLLEGATO

24. View of the STAR source location

25. STAR hangar layout

26. Status of STAR Infrastructure as of today First X-ray photon beam expected by 2017

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