Home page > Component testing and radiatio > Radiations test panel > Displacement damageProton Displacement damage.

Displacement damage is esssentially induced by protons. An incident proton will create defects by colliding an atom of the crystal (recoil atom) what provokes damages of the electric characteristics of certain components and particularly of opto-electronic components and CCD. This test consistsin measuring parameters drifts for different proton fluences.
TRAD has developed the Optical Test Bench with specialists from the CNES for their study of proton displacement damage on opto-electronic devices.