Silicon

Silicon Alley is an area of high tech companies centered around southern Manhattan's Flatiron district in New York City.

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A 0.42-nanometer breakthrough could push transistors beyond silicon

Micro-transfer-printed InGaAs/GaAsSb photodetectors on silicon enable broadband, high-speed optical interconnects - EurekAlert!

Can silicon–carbon anodes push beyond the conventional capacity limit of silicon? - EurekAlert!

Leaf traits drive herbivory across forests: Silicon and heat tolerance matter - EurekAlert!

A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore’s law - EurekAlert!

New passivation strategy boosts perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell performance - EurekAlert!

Silicon nitride ceramics strengthened by novel intergrown distorted columnar-cluster microstructures - EurekAlert!

Beyond silicon: the soft, dissolvable brain chips engineered to learn and vanish - EurekAlert!

Record efficiency for perovskite-silicon triple-junction solar cells - EurekAlert!

When silicon fills the role of carbon: Debut of all-silicon cyclopentadienides - EurekAlert!

INU researchers present roadmap of ultra-thin crystalline silicon-based bioelectronics - EurekAlert!

Beyond silicon: Electronics at the scale of a single molecule - EurekAlert!

Mechanism of hydrogen-driven free-electron generation in silicon elucidated for first time ever - EurekAlert!

Beyond silicon: These shape-shifting molecules could be the future of AI hardware

Silicon enantiomeric convergence and Z/E stereocontrolled catalysis of olefins - EurekAlert!

Silicon chips on the brain: Researchers announce a new generation of brain-computer interface - EurekAlert!

Operando X-ray tomography reveals silicon–electrolyte interface dynamics in all-solid-state batteries - EurekAlert!

New research powers next-gen silicon-based batteries for cheaper, faster charging and longer range EVs - EurekAlert!

Researchers have imaged the wave states of a prominent type of defect in silicon. Adding atoms of another material to silicon (creating a defect) could transform it into an invaluable resource, because the defects can house stable systems with quantum properties, potentially for quantum computing.

Extremely stripped supernova reveals a silicon and sulfur formation site