RADIATION
/ PARTICLE TRANSPORT
Dr.
Stanley Woolf
Since
1967, ARCON has been a pioneer in the development of particle
transport theory techniques and their applications to the
transport of electrons, protons, neutrons and gamma radiation.
Practical applications of this research range from: accurate
predictions of the location, extent, and effects of airborne
radioactive particles; reliability assurance of air and
space-borne-communications systems in a radiation environment;
response simulation of space weather measurement and particle
detection instrumentation.
ARCON is currently under contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles
Directorate (AFRL/VSBX) as a participant in the Demonstration and Science Experiment
(DSX) research program. Our primary objective is to perform computer simulations of
charged particle transport and energy deposition in satellite-borne instrumentation to
support Space Weather (SWx) and Radiation Belt Remediation (RBR) research
experiments to determine and test technologies that will be required for the deployment
of large space structures and apertures, high-power generation, and survivability in the
high radiation environment of a medium earth orbit (MEO).
Areas
of Research and Development
- Effects
of ionizing radiation (electrons, heavy ions, protons,
alpha particles, x-rays, and gamma rays) on
microelectronic device materials
- Atomic
displacement damage in microelectronic device materials
- Charge
and electric field build-up in dielectric materials
- Analytical
benchmark tests of approximate transport theory
calculation methods
- Molecular
dynamics calculations of atomic displacement effects in
silicon
- Simulation
calculations of the response of space-borne
instrumentation for the detection and measurement of
energy and charge deposition by electrons, protons and
ions
- Radiation
Dosimetry
- Analytical
and numerical solutions of the Boltzmann and Fokker-Planck
transport equations
Representative Publications List
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