Object Details
- Manufacturer
- General Electric Space Systems Division
- Summary
- This artifact is an engineering test sample demonstrating an early step in the construction of a microelectronic hybrid, a specialized device combining electrical components and circuits arranged in layers on top of an alumina wafer.
- Each layer consisted of three sublayers: a conducting sublayer composed of circuits; an insulating sublayer; and a "via" sublayer that provided connections between adjoining layers. This artifact shows the blue glass used to create an insulating conducting sublayer.
- The number of layers in a device ranged from three to eight, depending on its function. A completed hybrid was an ingenious puzzle in which the various layers were integrated through as many as several thousand connections.
- Such hybrids were essential components on some types of science and communications satellites in the 1980s and 1990s. Lockheed Martin donated this artifact to the Museum in 1998.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Lockheed Martin
- Inventory Number
- A19980310001
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Electronics
- Materials
- Overall: Alumina Silicate Ceramic, Unknown Blue Layer, Copper, Paper, Adhesive, Ink
- Dimensions
- Overall (Substrate Layer): 5.87 x 5.87 x 0.22cm (2 5/16in. x 2 5/16in. x 1/16in.)
- Overall (Paper Label): 9.21 x 1.27cm (3 5/8in. x 1/2in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19980310001
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9aff6bc4e-731a-42a2-a98e-e0218a07acc1
