It sat inside of a big box whose job was to take silicon wafers in on one side and spit out integrated circuits on the other. [BrendaEM] never really divulges how she got her hands on something so ...

Silicon is, after oxygen, the most abundant element of the Earth's crust. But although about 75% of the Earth is made from silica — or silicon dioxide (SiO 2), the main constituent of silicate ...

For that reason, the direct epitaxial growth of high-quality III-V optical gain materials selectively on large-size silicon photonics wafers remains a highly sought-after objective. The large ...

Today, silicon wafers are cut from huge blocks of monocrystalline silicon known as boules. Silicate ceramics are often hard and tough, and will tolerate wild swings in temperature. Their thermal ...

monolithically fabricated on 300 mm silicon wafers in its CMOS pilot prototyping line. Achieving room-temperature continuous-wave lasing with threshold currents as low as 5 mA and output powers ...

similar to the thin silicon wafers used to build modern computer chips, which have proved tricky to create. Now, Zhiqin Chu at the University of Hong Kong and his colleagues have found a way to ...

The chip starts out as a thin wafer of P-type silicon. This is then coated with a layer of silicon dioxide -- kind of a silicon rust, which doesn't conduct electricity. On top of this is placed a ...