Faster, cheaper chips from space technology

(ESA) - Our world is full of integrated semiconductor circuits, commonly known as microchips. Today you find them in computers, cars, mobile phones and in almost every electrical device. Technology from ESA?s XMM-Newton space telescope will make these chips much smaller, faster and cheaper.

The circuits are etched into today?s microchips by ultraviolet light.


This is above all due to its exceptional mirrors ? the most sensitive ever developed ? which total 200 sq m covered by ul [...]

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