Useful Techniques for Analyzing Capacitor Transients in a Radiation Environment

Some useful techniques of evaluating the radiation-induced transient response of circuits employing capacitors by using transient circuit analysis programs are discussed. Analysis methods to relate the capacitor´s radiation-induced current generator to the basic parameters, ¿(t), Kp, Kd, and ¿d, using existing circuit analysis programs are given. An expression relating the change in voltage resulting from an absorbed dose for an arbitrary burst shape is also derived.