{"id":267441,"date":"2017-01-30T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=671684112e803f53a92e75f416504ab6"},"modified":"2017-01-30T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T13:08:00","slug":"from-blu-ray-players-to-earth-observing-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=267441","title":{"rendered":"From Blu-ray players to Earth-observing missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2017\/01\/andrew_barnes\/16625555-1-eng-GB\/Andrew_Barnes_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<i>Andrew Barnes, Senior Technology Engineer<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you have a Blu-ray player than you own a tiny crystal of Gallium nitride (GaN) \u2013 used in high-performance blue lasers. Versatile GaN has been called the most promising semiconductor since silicon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIts \u2018wide bandgap\u2019 nature means it can operate with high RF output power, low noise, or at high temperature \u2013 silicon electronics will not function beyond about 180\u00baC but GaN will go on working at temperatures as high as 500 \u00baC to 600 \u00baC. As a plus, it is also inherently radiation resistant.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2017\/01\/andrew_barnes\/16625555-1-eng-GB\/Andrew_Barnes_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\n<i>Andrew Barnes, Senior Technology Engineer<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you have a Blu-ray player than you own a tiny crystal of Gallium nitride (GaN) &ndash; used in high-performance blue lasers. Versatile GaN has been called the most promising semiconductor since silicon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIts &lsquo;wide bandgap&rsquo; nature means it can operate with high RF output power, low noise, or at high temperature &ndash; silicon electronics will not function beyond about 180&ordm;C but GaN will go on working at temperatures as high as 500 &ordm;C to 600 &ordm;C. As a plus, it is also inherently radiation resistant.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267442,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267441\/revisions\/267442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}