Testing, radiation testing: Northwestern transistors on space st...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Mon, 06/09/2008 - 23:00

(Northwestern University) Transistors based on a new kind of material created by Northwestern University researchers have been lifted into outer space on the space shuttle Endeavour and attached to the outside of the International Space Station for radiation testing.

The transistors, which used a new kind of gate dielectric material called a self-assembled nanodielectric, will remain there for a year as part of a NASA materials experiment to see how they and other materials hold up to the harsh space environment.

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