Shrinking computers, faster phones, and smarter gadgets all rely on one tiny component: the transistor. Invented in the 20th ...

Shrinking silicon transistors have reached their physical limits, but a team from the University of Tokyo is rewriting the ...

Silicon has the diamond cubic crystal structure with a lattice parameter of 0.543 nm. The nearest neighbor distance is 0.235 nm. The diamond cubic crystal structure has an fcc lattice with a basis of ...

Light emission from silicon was considered unattainable because of silicon’s crystal structure. Electrons necessary for laser action are generated too far away from their “mates.” ...

Chipmakers turn to silicon for its crystal structure, which can be lightly salted with trivalent or pentavalent ions to produce semiconductor materials with subtly different behavior on a quantum ...

To construct the two-qubit gate, the researchers layered tiny aluminum wires onto a highly ordered silicon crystal. The wires deliver voltages that trap two single electrons, separated by an energy ...

“A vastly improved understanding of the crystal structure of silicon, the ‘universal’ substrate or foundation material on which everything is built, will be crucial in understanding the ...

(Nanowerk News) The continuous success of the computer industry is made possible by the ongoing miniaturization of computer chips. A way to make computers even faster is to devise chips that are ...

Artistic rendering of atomic structure of silicon carbide crystal showing defect (purple circle) and region of interest identified with quantum mechanical theory (silver sphere). Disclaimer ...

Silicon is obviously one of the most important ... the theoretical limit on stretching because the nanosized single-crystal structure had few defects and was atomically smooth.

Light emission from silicon was considered unattainable because of silicon’s crystal structure. Electrons necessary for laser action are generated too far away from their “mates.” ...