Inventors of the Absorber (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Inventors of the Absorber

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Christine Jhabvala and Ed Wollack hold the sketch of the absorber technology they created. Containing thousands of tightly packed, micro-machined spikes or cylindrical protuberances no taller than a grain of sand, the absorber is a critical component of the four 1,280-pixel detector arrays used in HAWC+.

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Credits: NASA/W. Hrybyk

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