Space Weather—Radiation Damage to Materials and Electronic Devices: Mitigation Risks
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 April 2025 | Viewed by 98
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2. IMDEA Materials Institute, Madrid, Spain
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Space weather is the physical and phenomenological state of natural space environments. Through observation, monitoring, analysis, and modelling, the associated discipline aims to understand and predict the state of the Sun, as well as interplanetary and planetary environments and the solar- and non-solar-driven perturbations that affect them, in addition to forecasting and nowcasting potential impacts on biological and technological systems (COST Action 724 , 2009).
This Special Issue is focused on the consequences of space weather and how they affect the lifestyles of this planet’s citizens, with a particular focus on the normal functioning of cities, electronic equipment, electronic components, materials, and electrical infrastructures. Several electromagnetic storms have seriously threatened the population, such as the breakdown on 1 September 1859, named the Carrington event, when a massive solar storm composed of subatomic charged particles slammed into the Earth’s protective magnetosphere, altering the operation of telegraphs and electronic devices. A similar storm today would have caused failures in communication grids, electrical networks, and power lines.
The aim of this issue is to collect the most advanced research studies carried out by specialists in space weather, focusing on either the detection of cosmic episodes (mainly radiation produced by solar flares) with medium- and high-energy gamma and ion detectors, or studying the effects that this radiation produces in electronic devices, such as the generation of single-event effects or effects on materials, e.g., dislocations of their atomic lattice structure. Additional aims of this Special Issue include elucidating the different methods used to mitigate the risks that worldwide populations are facing; these may include the fabrication of novel materials for electromagnetic radiation shields or algorithmic predictions based on energy data obtained using novel radiation sensors and detectors.
- This Special Issue aims to collect the most advanced research studies in space weather detection alongside the mitigation o.
- This topic aligns with the scope of Sensors as numerous medium- and high-radiation sensors are used to detect electromagnetic and particle cascades and electromagnetic storms from space. Furthermore, the fabrication of novel materials that can shield cosmic radiation can only be achieved by testing them with a variety of radiation sensors.
Dr. Jose Sanchez del Río Sáez
Dr. Antonio Vázquez-López
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- space weather
- solar flares
- climate change
- high- and medium-energy detectors
- materials operating as electromagnetic shields
- metals
- ceramics
- carbon polymer composites
