Optoelettronica Italia Srl, better known as Optoi, is an Italian Company dealing with optoelectronics and microelectronics. A new development centred on a radiation tolerant optocoupler started in 2011, among the rapidly growing activities involving the Company’s aerospace unit. This activity for ESA was funded by European Component Initiative (Phase 2), and it was focused on the development of a European optocoupler with its European-Space-Component-Coordination (ESCC) evaluation for space applications, keeping the performances of the non-European counterparts as reference [3]. The main motivation for this activity is due to the absence of an ESCC qualified or evaluated European source for this type of components, available for the space sector. This paper presents the most representative results obtained during this evaluation, which allowed identifying the main device failure modes and performance characteristics in harsh space environment. Such result elaboration was possible after about 40 months of project work, based on a close collaboration with Optoi’s two partners Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK, specifically its Micro Nano Facility - MNF) and AdvEOTec.
Development and escc evaluation of a european radiation tolerant optocoupler
Collini, Amos;Ficorella, Francesco;Giacomini, Gabriele;Bellutti, Pierluigi;
2014-01-01
Abstract
Optoelettronica Italia Srl, better known as Optoi, is an Italian Company dealing with optoelectronics and microelectronics. A new development centred on a radiation tolerant optocoupler started in 2011, among the rapidly growing activities involving the Company’s aerospace unit. This activity for ESA was funded by European Component Initiative (Phase 2), and it was focused on the development of a European optocoupler with its European-Space-Component-Coordination (ESCC) evaluation for space applications, keeping the performances of the non-European counterparts as reference [3]. The main motivation for this activity is due to the absence of an ESCC qualified or evaluated European source for this type of components, available for the space sector. This paper presents the most representative results obtained during this evaluation, which allowed identifying the main device failure modes and performance characteristics in harsh space environment. Such result elaboration was possible after about 40 months of project work, based on a close collaboration with Optoi’s two partners Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK, specifically its Micro Nano Facility - MNF) and AdvEOTec.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
