Monthly Archives: November 2008

We’ve had a successful time at Heidelberg so far. In the first week we shot aerogel tiles with 1/2 micron sized spheres of latex imbued with sulfur and coated with a conductive polymer. This yielded the first successful artificial tracks with known impactor size and velocities in the range of […]

We have been working with our colleagues at the University of Heidelberg, Germany for the last two weeks, using their tandem van de graaf dust accelerator to fire submicron dust particles into aerogel tiles and aluminum foils.  Zack Gainsforth from Berkeley is working with Frank Postberg, Ralf Srama and Eberhard […]