FTD%MIT-OZ@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU ("David D. Story") (01/27/86)
The Soviet Union has apparently grown gallium arsenide (GaAs) and other optoeletronic compunds and heterostructures in space. A Washington D.C> research firm came across a 1984 study "factors influencing the liquid epitaxy process in zero gravity and in earth conditions" for gallium arsenide. Salut 6 and 7, as well as earlier Soviet space labs have carried materials growth and characterization batch processing furnaces. Space Business News
eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (01/27/86)
David Story notes: > The Soviet Union has apparently grown gallium arsenide (GaAs) > and other optoeletronic compunds and heterostructures in > space. . . . > > Space Business News This is no surprise. NASA and the DOD have known about this for several years. --eugene miya