In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have pulled off a laser first: they built a new kind of eye-safe laser that works ...

Pure silicon is never found in nature, but you can make pure silicon crystals from sand, which is primarily composed of quartz.

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

Constructed from individual pure silicon crystals, they can convert more sunlight into electricity than any other panel type.

Monocrystalline solar panels are made from a single, pure silicon crystal, giving them a uniform, black appearance. They have a higher efficiency rate, typically between 17% and 22%.

Scientists have made astonishingly pure silicon – a new breakthrough material that could finally make quantum computers possible.

Rather than using materials from various silicon fragments, monocrystalline solar panels are made up of “pure” wafers that are sourced from singular silicon crystals.

Just like monocrystalline solar cells, polycrystalline solar cells are made from silicon crystals. The difference is that, instead of being extruded as a single pure ingot, the silicon crystal ...

Wafers are made of slices of pure silicon crystal, normally having 200 or 300 millimeters of diameter. (2) Once treated and polished, wafers are sold to chip factories (called fabs, such as TSMC ...

Monocrystalline solar panels offer better efficiency because they’re produced from pure silicon. They have a sleek, black color and produce more power per square foot but are more expensive.