DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS, UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ LIRMM, UNIVERSITY OF MONTPELLIER/CNRS RESEARCH REPORT No. 10/2017 SINGLE-EVENT EFFECTS OF SPACE AND ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION ON MEMORY COMPONENTS by Alexandre Louis BOSSER Academic Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy To be presented, by permission of the Faculty of Mathematics and Science of the University of Jyväskylä and the President of the University of Montpellier, for public examination in Auditorium FYS 1 of the University of Jyväskylä on December 20th, 2017 at 12 noon. Jyväskylä, Finland 2017 2 Author Alexandre Louis Bosser Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä, Finland LIRMM, University of Montpellier/CNRS Montpellier, France email:
[email protected] Supervisors Professor Ari Virtanen Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä, Finland Assistant Professor Arto Javanainen Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä Jyväskylä, Finland School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN, USA Professor Luigi Dilillo LIRMM, University of Montpellier/CNRS Montpellier, France Reviewers Professor Ronald Schrimpf Institute for Space and Defense Electronics, Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN, USA Professor Simone Gerardin Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova Padova, Italy Opponent Professor Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Brazil 3 Abstract Electronic memories are ubiquitous components in electronic systems: they are used to store