{"id":217173,"date":"2025-07-04T06:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/understanding-the-impact-of-radiation-on-silicon-carbide-devices-for-space-applications"},"modified":"2025-07-04T06:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:12:49","slug":"understanding-the-impact-of-radiation-on-silicon-carbide-devices-for-space-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/understanding-the-impact-of-radiation-on-silicon-carbide-devices-for-space-applications","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the impact of radiation on silicon carbide devices for space applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/understanding-the-impact-of-radiation-on-silicon-carbide-devices-for-space-applications.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first results of the ETH Zurich and ANSTO collaboration focused on silicon carbide (SiC) devices have been reported in two publications.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Corinna Martinella, formerly a senior scientist at ETH Zurich, said in a LinkedIn post that the research advances an understanding of the basic mechanisms of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/radiation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">radiation<\/a> damage in SiC power devices exposed to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heavy+ions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heavy ions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/11045732\/\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in <i>IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science<\/i> describes the testing of how commercial <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/silicon+carbide\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">silicon carbide<\/a> (SiC) power devices, including MOSFETs and Junction Barrier Schottky (JBS) diodes, respond to space-like radiation at a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/microscopic+level\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">microscopic level<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first results of the ETH Zurich and ANSTO collaboration focused on silicon carbide (SiC) devices have been reported in two publications. Dr. Corinna Martinella, formerly a senior scientist at ETH Zurich, said in a LinkedIn post that the research advances an understanding of the basic mechanisms of radiation damage in SiC power devices exposed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,873,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nuclear-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}