Space Microelectronics: Integrated Circuit Design for Space Applications: No. 2

Both volumes outline the design and development of microelectronic devices and microcircuits for applications in space. In the first volume, readers will find in-depth chapters on microwave electronics for space and military technology, spacecraft failures and accidents and the construction of products. The second volume focuses more on submicron transistors and the peculiarities of the technological process of production and construction, radiation impact and tolerance and the design of microcircuits based on SOS and SOI structures.

Table of Contents:
Considerations For Selection and Application of Foreign Electronic Component Base In Designing of Domestic Spacecraft; Peculiarities of the Technological Process of Production and Basic Constructions of Submicron Transistors and Schottky Diodes; Energy Consumption Minimization Methods For Microelectronic Devices; Peculiarities of Radiation Impact on Submicron Integrated Circuits; Methods of Prediction and Increase of Radiation Tolerance of Bipolar and CMOS Integrated Microcircuits; Analysis of Problems of Designing Very-High-Speed Microelectronic Devices and Systems Based on Them; Designing Space Application Microcircuits Based on SOS-and SOI-Structures; System-On-Chip and System-In-Package; Methods for Rejection of Silicon Microcircuits with Hidden Defects During Mass Production.

About the Author :
Anatoly Belous is the director of the research and development center of Belmicrosystems and the director for science and prospective marketing of design of Integral Holding. He received his electronic engineering degree from Minsk Radio-Technical UniversityVitali Saladukha is the general manager of Integral Holding. He received his Ph.D. in radio-physics and electronics from Belarussian State University, Minsk.Siarhei Shvedau is the director of the design center of integral Holding. He received his degree with a specialty in physics of semiconductors from Minsk Radio-Technical University.

Review :
Reading this book was a pleasure, the title being of a full compliance with the contents. In my estimation, its merits can be attributed to inclusion of the extra materials on the causes of failures and accidents of rockets and satellites, noteworthy facts from the history of the space engineering development. I see it as the first ever fundamental work in the sphere of the space microelectronics, encompassing both the odd literature instances on the specific aspects of the space microelectronics and the vast personal experience of the authors, the recognized authorities in this sphere. By comparison with the Russian language edition the materials are superior structured, updated and more comprehensive. I am positive, that this book will be amid the contemporary selection of works of the technical science at a proper place. Nowadays we witness the thriving development of the convergence process (merger, unification, inter-permeation) of a number of science disciplines, earlier advancing independently of each other. A vivid example can be seen in the telecommunications and information-communications technologies and systems on their basis emerged about ten years past in the result of convergence of two entirely diverse science directions – informatics and electrical communications. At present we are quite ready to amalgamate the existent technologies of microelectronics with the explored (structures of live nature) by means of convergence of nano-, bio-, info- and other spheres of knowledge. The exact same phenomenon is also in evidence in the sphere of the space explorations, the objective manifestation of which is the arrival of this book, embracing within the span of three volumes the previously virtually distant science disciplines - technologies of the micro- and nano- electronics, microwave engineering, design development of the on-board electronic systems of space vehicles, methods for reliability enhancement and power saving on the spacecraft, physical influence mechanisms on the space vehicles and the on-board electronics by the high energy micro-particles, methods for safeguarding from the similar effects, technologies and materials for protection from the space radiation and electromagnetic irradiations and a great deal more. I strongly believe, that the book Space Microelectronics will go straight to the world contemporary literature of technical science. The specialists and senior members of the divisions of the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation "Roskosmos" are well cognizant of and resort in their practical activities to the Russian language edition of the book by A. I. Belous, V. A. Solodukha, S. V. Shvedov Space Electronics. World print by the Artech House of the English language version of the book Space Microelectronics in three volumes, substantially renewed and expanded with the recent materials, will certainly evoke the interest of the English language and Russian specialists and managers in the space industry on a wider scale.