For many power-related applications, the semiconductor industry is moving away from silicon to new ‘wide bandgap’ semiconductor materials like SiC and GaN. Due to their unique material properties, SiC ...

With its deep expertise in PICs and a dynamic innovation ecosystem, the UK is exceptionally well positioned to thrive in the ...

Nov 04, 2011: Artificial diamond structure made from silicon: a semiconductor for light (Nanowerk News) The continuous success of the computer industry is made possible by the ongoing miniaturization ...

The researchers sliced sheets of silicon, up to 300 nanometers thin, from a wafer and stamped those sheets onto silk. Then they patterned magnesium electrodes and magnesium oxide (or silicon ...

Begone, silicon: New semiconductors touted as the future for our chips Written by Charlie Osborne, Contributing Writer Aug. 14, 2017 at 5:05 a.m. PT File Photo ...

Mesoporous silicon: Semiconductor with new talents. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 02 / 250225122018.htm.

Silicon as a semiconductor: Silicon carbide would be much more efficient. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 09 / 190905111650.htm.

Two wafers containing silicon chips at the Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute in Hsinchu. Taiwan is a colossus in the global market for semiconductors, the brains of modern electronics.

Silicon is the best-known semiconductor material. However, controlled nanostructuring drastically alters the material's properties. Using a specially developed etching apparatus, a team at HZB ...