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Recent Advancements in the Development, Manufacturability and Lifetime Testing of GPHS Heritage-like SiGe Unicouples Using SiGe and SiMo Materials Prepared by Spark Plasma Synthesis

Jonathan Pierce (Johns Hopkins APL), Jake Ballard (Johns Hopkins APL), Richard Ung (Johns Hopkins APL), Tim Holgate (Johns Hopkins APL), Rasdip Singh (Soal Technologies), Mousumi Mitra (Univ. Virginia), Scott Misture (Alfred Univ.), Joseph Poon (Univ. Virginia), Timothy Erickson (Johns Hopkins APL), Paul Ostdiek (Johns Hopkins APL), Rama Venkatasubramanian (Johns Hopkins APL)

Proceedings | Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS 2024) | Santa Fe, NM, May 6-10, 2024 | Pages 560-565