As great as silicon is for semiconductor applications, it has one weakness in that using it for lasers isn’t very practical. Never say never though, as it turns out that you can now grow ...

T oday, silicon photonic circuits connect server racks and play key roles in chemical sensors, biosensors, and LIDAR for self ...

To store ever more data in electronic devices of the same size, the manufacturing processes for these devices need to be ...

The narrow, deep holes required for one type of flash memory are made twice as fast with the right recipe, which includes a plasma made from hydrogen fluoride.

To improve data storage, researchers are perfecting 3D NAND flash memory, which stacks cells to maximize space. Researchers ...

One recent development involves keeping the wafer –– the sheet of semiconductor ... an essential ingredient when etching silicon dioxide at any significant degree. While it has been used ...

It says something about your career at a company that makes hundreds of trillions of transistors every day when your nickname ...

But although about 75% of the Earth is made from silica — or silicon dioxide (SiO 2), the main ... polycrystalline silicon used to make silicon wafers (smooth thin discs). The richness of ...