Exploring Europa Possible with Silicon-Germanium Transistor Technology

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Regents’ Professor John D. Cressler in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and his students have been working with silicon-germanium heterojunction bipolar transistors for decades and have found them to have unique advantage.

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Europa is more than just one of Jupiter’s many moons – it’s also one of most promising places in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life. Under 10 kilometers of ice is a liquid water ocean that could sustain life. But with surface temperatures at -180 Celsius and with extreme levels of radiation, it’s also one of the most inhospitable places in the solar system. Exploring Europa could be possible in the coming years thanks to new applications for silicon-germanium transistor technology research at Georgia Tech.

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  • Created By: Tess Malone
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  • Created On: Sep 30, 2022 - 10:58am
  • Last Updated: Sep 30, 2022 - 11:26am