(SiGe) A semiconductor material made from silicon and germanium. Germanium is very similar to silicon, but when one layer is grown on top of the other to form the base of the transistor, the resulting ...

A laboratory at Purdue University provided a critical part of the world's first transistor in 1947 -- the purified germanium semiconductor -- and now researchers there are on the forefront of a new ...

Scientists have successfully made germanium, a key semiconductor used in computer chips and fiber optics, superconducting for ...

In a recent study published in the journal Small, an international team of researchers led by the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) examined both the advantages and production methods of ...

(Nanowerk News) Over the past 70 years, the number of transistors on a chip has doubled approximately every two years – according to Moore’s Law, which is still valid today. The circuits have become ...

Scientists have long sought to make semiconductors—vital components in computer chips and solar cells—that are also ...

Cost effective, power efficient technology drives innovative new wireless applications and devices East Fishkill and N.Y., August 5, 2005 -- IBM today announced the availability of its fourth ...

A technique that deposits silicon (Si) on top of silicon germanium (SiGe) for making transistors on a chip. In so doing, the silicon atoms are stretched ("strained") to line up with the silicon ...

Silicon sees the light: Elham Fadaly (left) and Alain Dijkstra in their Eindhoven lab. (Courtesy: Sicco van Grieken/SURF) A light-emitting silicon-based material with a direct band gap has been ...

Researchers have made germanium superconducting for the first time, a feat that could transform computing and quantum ...