Skoltech and MIPT researchers have sped up the search for high-performance metal alloys for the aerospace industry, ...

Soitec's photonics wafers are used for data center optical interconnections as higher communication speeds are needed. Soitec's manufacturing technology seems to be the only efficient and reliable way ...

silicon and oxygen. Beryl's crystal structure is more complicated than corundum's because of the additional elements in the ...

Many semiconductors start their lives as massive cylindrical ingots of monocrystalline silicon called boules. Boules are formed by dipping a seed crystal into pure molten silicon. Extrinsic ...

According to the US Geological Survey, the world's reserves of pure silicon (including that synthesized ... power transistors to solar cells, liquid-crystal displays, and semiconductor-based ...

One feature of compounds made with transition metals is their intense colour. There are many examples in nature, including ...

How might you make your mark on the world forever? Write a play more timeless than Shakespeare, or compose music to out-do ...

Both rubies and emeralds are minerals, which is a type of rock with a consistent chemical composition and a highly ordered ...

Will Norman asks if mass-scale deployment of perovskite technology is now imminent and whether it could unseat crystalline ...