Silicon is so important for electronics and computing that it’s become synonymous with technology – even getting a valley named after it – but the stuff still has its flaws. Now, scientists have ...

Where there’s electricity, there’s usually heat – and that’s a major hurdle for shrinking electronic devices. Scientists have now found that nanowires made of a certain isotope of silicon can conduct ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Universities of Melbourne and Manchester have invented a technique for manufacturing highly purified silicon that brings powerful quantum computers a big step closer ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan's GlobalWafers Co. is expanding further into advanced materials, extending its expertise in ultra-pure silicon to emerging applications in quantum technology, CTEE ...

Bottom line: Scientists from UC Berkeley have developed and demonstrated a new type of ultrathin silicon nanowire with heat dissipation properties far superior to currently used technology. The ...

NXP, the independent semiconductor company founded byPhilips, has introduced a new generation of high-definition digital terrestrial silicon tuner, the TDA18211HD, which raises the performance and ...

Scientists have devised an efficient method of recovering high-purity silicon from expired solar panels to produce lithium-ion batteries that could help meet the increasing global demand to power ...