SUBSA-InSPA-SSCug

Meteor Shower: Optical Micrograph depicting the morphology of extremely long elongated semimetal phases (crystals) grown inside a Semimetal-Semiconductor Composite (SSC) crystal. This wafer was extracted from a space grown crystal in the ISS-SUBSA-MSG facility during Mission 1. The appearance of the semimetal crystals resembles a meteor shower. These long semimetal crystals embedded in semiconductor matrix in space grown crystals could potentially be used for future low power-high speed advanced computing chip designs and space grade high sensitivity electronic sensors. (Image courtesy of Geeta Rajagopalan, United Semiconductors LLC)

jsc2025e067416 (8/5/2025) --- Microscopic image of a semimetal-semiconductor composite (SSC) wafer extracted from one of four crystals grown in the International Space Station’s SUBSA facility during the first SUBSA-InSPA-SSCug mission. Credit: United Semiconductors LLC

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