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Radiation effects in electronics - additional resources

Podcasts:

New York Public Radio's Radiolab podcast "Bit Flip": https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/bit-flip

Videos:

"The Universe Is Hostile to Computers" - Veritaserum on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8

"The World's Largest Cyclotron" - Linus Tech Tips tours TRIUMF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Q9tPFgvp0

"Your Cell Phone Vs the Universe" - a recording from TRIUMF's Saturday Morning Lecture series on the topic of radiation effects on microelectronics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMpnbPUR_kM

Articles:

"Cosmic Ray Failures of Power Semiconductor Devices" in IEEE Spectrum: https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/cosmic-ray-failures-of-power-semiconductor-devices

The story of the Telstar satellite: https://medium.com/@words_etc/telstar-a-history-of-the-most-important-satellite-you-ve-never-heard-of-b10f81c2aed1 

"A primer on particle accelerators" from Symmetry Magazine: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-primer-on-particle-accelerators

Build-your-own cosmic ray detector from Symmetry Magazine: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/january-2015/how-to-build-your-own-particle-detector

Solar storms and their effects from Scientific American: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/geomagnetic-storm-march-13-1989-extreme-space-weather/ and NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/sun_darkness.html

Data:

NOAA's Space weather real-time info and forecast: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts

Infographic:

Radiation environments (click on thumbnail for high resolution image)