July, 2006

Vanderbilt engineers lead world forum on electronics-damaging radiation

Jul. 17, 2006—Your iPod may be a fine example of technical wizardry, but it’s no match for a cosmic ray. That’s not a hypothetical problem or even peculiar to iPods. A random cosmic ray can shut down a whole computer system if it hits just right, and even background radiation can cause computer systems to falter. Cosmic...