Silicon technology offers extended X-ray vision of high-energy cosmos
Monday, December 21, 2009 - 09:14
in Physics & Chemistry
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.