Mr. Patrick McDonald

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M.A. Xapsos, A.B. Campbell, A.R. Knudson, W.J. Stapor, P. Shapiro, T. Palmer, P.T. McDonald, and S.L. Swickert, "Charge Collection Efficiency Related to Damage in MOS Capacitors," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., NS-34, No. 6, 1214 (1987).

W.J. Stapor and P.T. McDonald, "Practical Approach to Ion Track Energy Distribution," J. Appl. Phys., 64 (9), 4430 (1988).

W.J. Stapor, P.T. McDonald, A.R. Knudson, A.B. Campbell, and B.G. Glagola, "Charge Collection in Silicon for Ions of Different Energy but Same Linear Energy Transfer (LET)," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., NS-35, No. 6, 1585 (1988).

W.J. Stapor, P.T. McDonald, S.L. Swickert, A.B. Campbell, L.W. Massengill, and S.E. Kerns, "Low Temperature Proton Induced Upsets in NMOS Resistive Load Static RAM," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., NS-35, No. 6, 1596 (1988).

P.T. McDonald, W.J. Stapor, and A.B. Campbell, "Non-Random Single Event Upset Trends," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., NS-36, No. 6, 2324 (1989).

S. Buchner, K. Kang, W.J. Stapor, A.R. Knudson, A.B. Campbell, P.T. McDonald, and S. Rivet, "Pulsed Laser-Induced SEU in Integrated Circuits: A Practical Method for Hardness Assurance Testing," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., NS-37, No. 6, 1825 (1990).

A. Campbell, P. McDonald, K. Ray, "Single event upset rates in space", IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., NS-39, No.6, 1828 (1992).

P.T. McDonald, W.J. Stapor, and D. Gonyea, "CRRES MEP Multiple Bit Upsets," accepted for publication, 1992 IEEE NSREC.

K.P. Ray, E.G. Mullen, W.J. Stapor, R.R. Circle, and P.T. McDonald, "CRRESS dosimetry results and comparisons using the space radiation dosimeter and P-channel MOS dosimeters", IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., NS-39, No. 6, 1846 (1992).

T.R. Weatherford, P.T. McDonald, A.B. Campbell, J.B. Langworthy, "SEU rate prediction and measurement of GaAs SRAMs onboard the CRRES satellite", IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., NS-40, No. 6, 1463 (1993).

A. Campbell, P. McDonald, R. Gonyea, M. Reeves, "Results from the CRRES MEP experiment", IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., NS-41, No. 6, 1846 (1994).

J. W. Howard, Jr., R. C. Block, W. J. Stapor, P. T. McDonald, A. R. Knudson, H. Dussault, and M. R. Pinto, "A Novel Approach for Measuring the Radial Distribution of Charge in a Heavy-Ion Track", IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 41, No. 6, 2077 (1994)

H. Dussault, J. W. Howard. Jr., R. C. Block, W. J. Stapor, A. R. Knudson, P. T. McDonald, and M. R. Pinto, "High-Energy Heavy-Ion-Induced Charge Transport Across Multiple Junctions," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 42, No.6, 1780 (1995)

A.R. Knudson, S. Buchner, P. McDonald, W. J. Stapor, A. B. Campbell, K. S. Grabowski, D. L. Knies, S. Lewis, and Y. Zhao "The Effects of Radiation on MEMS Accelerometers," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 43, No. 6, 3122 (1996)

R. Koga, M. D. Looper, S. D. Pinkerton, W. J. Stapor, and P. T. McDonald, "Low Dose Rate Proton Irradiation of Quartz Crystal Resonators", IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 43, No. 6, 3174 (1996)

O. Musseau, F. Gardic, P. Roche, T. Corbiere, R.A. Reed, S. Buchner, P. McDonald, J. Melinger, L. Tran, A.B. Campbell, "Analysis of multiple bit upsets (MBU) in CMOS SRAM", IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., NS-43, No. 6, 2879 (1996).

S. Buchner, A.B. Campbell, T. Weatherford, A. Knudson, P. McDonald, D. McMorrow, B. Fischer, S. Metzger, M. Schlog, "Charge collection in GaAs MESFET circuits using a high energy microbeam" IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., NS-43, No. 6, 2897 (1996).

W.J. Stapor, P.T. McDonald, T. Cousins, T. Jones, S. Anderson, K. Chao, D.K. Myers, J.D. Kinnison, and B.G. Carkhuff, "Space Radiation Measurements and Predictions for the Samsung 64 Mbit DRAM", Presented at 1996 IEEE NSREC Conference.

A.B. Campbell, O. Musseau, V. Ferlet-Cavrois, W.J. Stapor, and P.T. McDonald, "Analysis of Single Event Effects at Grazing Angle", 1997 Fourth European Conference on Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems Proceedings, 528 (1997)

O. Musseau, V. Ferlet-Cavrois, A. B. Campbell, A. R. Knudson, W. J. Stapor, P. T. McDonald, J. L. Pelloie, and C. Raynaud , "Charge Collection in Submicron CMOS/SOI Technology," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 44, No.6, 2124 (1997)

O. Musseau, V. Ferlet-Cavrois, A. B. Campbell, W. J. Stapor, and P. T. McDonald , "Comparison of Single Event Phenomena For Front/Back Irradiations," IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol. 44, No. 6, 2250 (1997)

W.J. Stapor, P.T. McDonald, and B.G. Henson, "Practical Low Dose Rate Methodology for Space Qualification Applied to Actel 1020 FPGA Devices", GOMAC Digest of Papers, Vol. XXIV, 18 (1999)

M.D. Frank, W.J. Stapor, P.T. McDonald, B.G. Henson and G. Snyder, "Long Term Precision Crystal Oscillator Frequency Shifts to Proton Radiation", GOMAC Digest of Papers, Vol. XXIV, 22 (1999)

P.T. McDonald, W.J. Stapor, and B.G. Henson, "PC603e 32-Bit Radiation Effects Study", GOMAC Digest of Papers, Vol. XXIV, 26 (1999)

W.J. Stapor and P.T. McDonald, "Simple and Practical Optocoupler CTR Degradation Predictive Model", GOMAC Digest of Papers, Vol. XXIV, 280 (1999)

W.J. Stapor, P.T. McDonald, and B.G. Henson, "High Energy Heavy Ion SEE Measurements and Rate Calculations on the Analog Devices AD9713 12-Bit D/A Converter", GOMAC Digest of Papers, Vol. XXIV, 615 (1999)

C.M. Castaneda, J.L. Romero, A.W. Laille, W.J. Stapor, and P.T. McDonald, "UC Davis Crocker Nuclear Laboratory (CNL) Radiation Effects Measurement and Test Facility", GOMAC Digest of Papers, Vol. XXIV, 540 (1999)

C.I. Merzbacher, W.J. Stapor, P.T. McDonald, and B.G. Henson, "Optocoupler Ionization Damage Differences of Proton and 60Co g Radiation", GOMAC Digest of Papers, Vol. XXIV, 740 (1999)

W.J. Stapor, P.T. McDonald, and B.G. Henson, "Composite Material Proton Radiation Transport Study", GOMAC Digest of Papers, Vol. XXIV, 623 (1999)

B.G. Henson, P.T. McDonald, and W.J. Stapor, "SDRAM Space Radiation Effects Measurements and Analysis, 1999 Data Workshop, (1999)

G. N. Smith, B.G. Henson, W.J. Stapor, T.A. Gates, S.C. Eckardt, and T.L. Smith, "Systems Analysis of High Performance Commercially Based DSP Processing Systems for Space Applications", GOMAC 2000 Digest of Papers, Vol. XXV, pp. 82 - 85.

P. T. McDonald, B. G. Henson, and W. J. Stapor, "Single Event Destructive Failure of OP470/OP471 Operational Amplifiers Due to Breakdown of Capacitor Oxides", GOMAC 2000 Digest of Papers, Vol. XXV, pp. 336-339.

B.G. Henson, P.T. McDonald, W.J. Stapor, J. Leavy, W.M. Ash III, T. Nesbit, "Energetic Proton Measurements and Analysis On A CID Camera", GOMAC 2000 Digest of Papers, Vol. XXV, pp 13-16.

B.G. Henson, P.T. McDonald, and W.J. Stapor, "16Mb SDRAM Proton Radiation Effects Measurements and Analysis", GOMAC 2000 Digest of Papers, Vol. XXV, pp 9-12.

P.T. McDonald, B.G. Henson, Mark Harris, and W.J. Stapor "Destructive Heavy Ion See Investigation Of 3 IGBT Devices", 2000 IEEE NSREC Data Workshop Record, not yet published.

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