Contents I. Introduction
Recent commitments to return humans to the lunar surface and long duration crewed missions beyond the protection of the Earth's atmosphere and magnetosphere require examination of technologies and challenges that are unique to human inhabitants. Electronic displays serve as a critical, real time informational interchange between crew and the plethora of support technologies that contribute to a successful crewed mission (e.g., scientific instrumentation, safety and health monitors, computer interface, etc.). Critical components utilized in space-based applications must reliably operate through a variety of hostile environments such as the particle radiation environment comprised of galactic cosmic rays, trapped particle belts, and solar particle emissions. These highly energetic particles interact with materials at the atomic level, temporarily distorting free charge carrier populations and modifying intrinsic material parameters that in-turn impact the performance of devices built upon that material. Apollo Era spacecraft leveraged LEDs indicators and seven segment displays for relatively short duration lunar missions that inherently reduced the accumulated dose to the on-board displays [1]. Present-day utilization of electronic displays on the International Space Station and space tourism are confined to well-shielded spacecraft in low earth orbit altitudes with non-polar orbits which results in significantly attenuated energetic particle populations and radiation dose seen by on-board components [2]. In contrast, crewed missions to the lunar surface will subject electronic displays to a particle radiation environment without geomagnetic shielding and in some cases with little to no shielding at all (e.g., displays on an unpressurized lunar rover, surface-based instrumentation, etc.).
