MAT Collaboration Meeting 2026

The presentation will cover ESA’s needs for radiation testing of electronics,
materials, and other technologies for space applications, in support of
qualification, technology development, radiation hardness assurance and
failure investigations.
It will explain how the GSI UNILAC facility, and in particular the X0 heavy-
ion microprobe, can complement conventional...

The use of fast-timing radiation-resistant materials, e.g. diamond [1-3] or silicon [4], which will survive to the FAIR beam rates longer than plastics (typically lifetime of 1 week) has being investigated in the last decade using SIS18 ion beams produced at GSI. Despite the excellent results obtained, none of these options was suitable to cover an active area of 400x100 mm^2 for detecting...

Silicon carbide (SiC) power devices are promising for space applications but suffer from single event leakage current (SELC), single event burnout (SEB) and single event gate rupture (SEGR) under heavy ion irradiation. Our recent experimental and simulation studies have systematically investigated the mechanisms including heavy ion induced degradation in SiC junction barrier Schottky (JBS)...

The control interface to the microprobe has evolved pragmatically in step with user's needs over the past 40 years. In this process, utmost care was taken to create as little latency reacting to beam events as possible in order to accept the maximum amount of beam from the accelerator into the experiment. In the pre-FPGA or very early microcontroller era that meant implementing custom,...

We present a compact laser setup for investigating single-event-effects in semiconductors. In the presentation, we give an overview, how we used the setup for beamtime-preparation at GSI-microprobe with SuperJunction MOSFETs and microcontrollers as well as an overview of further use-cases.
The developed pulse-laser-setup uses an optical pick-up-unit of a DVD-writer including laserdiodes with...

The development of radiation-hard particle detectors is essential for next-generation nuclear physics experiments within the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) framework. Among candidate materials, Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) diamond stands out due to its wide bandgap, high carrier mobility, and excellent radiation hardness, enabling operation in extreme environments [T....