Silicon technology offers extended X-ray vision of high-energy cosmos

As elements of the integrated circuits running our computers, phones and electronics, silicon wafers are everywhere. An ESA-led effort is establishing an out-of-this-world use for these commonplace items: when stacked together precisely by the thousand they promise to deliver astronomy?s clearest X-ray view yet of the most violent regions of space.

Link: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMC1T9K73G_index_0.html

Time: 21. Dec. 2009

Feed: ESA Top News

Topics: silicon, x-ray