A novel concept for a fully digital particle detector, G. Casse et, al. Journal of Instrumentation. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

Make an SRAM chip that is very vulnerable to Single Event Upsets from radiation, so you can detect particles by looking for bitflips :blobcatgiggle: I think this is not the first time this trick is used. "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" #electronics