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Neutron effects on short circuit currents of op amps and consequences

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2005-10
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Discrete bipolar operational amplifiers were irradiated with neutrons in order to study the evolution of the short circuit currents. Also, this paper explores the effect of the reduction of this current in devices based on operational amplifiers.
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© IEEE TNS. This work was supported in part by the cooperation agreement K476/LHC between CERN and UCM, the Spanish research agency CICYT (FPA2002-00912), and ITN.
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