(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 ...

Scientists have developed organic semiconductors that produce circularly polarized light and potentially improve current ...

Many people giving talks had complained about the current germanium transistors -- they had a bad habit of not working at high temperatures. Silicon, since it's right above germanium on the ...

But they have a rich history, going back through the silicon era to germanium junction transistors, and thence to the original devices. if you’ve ever looked at the symbol for a transistor and ...

Since the 1960s, one constant in this ongoing pursuit of elusive subatomic knowledge has been the chemical element germanium. Situated in the carbon column of the periodic table between silicon ...

For decades, people have been trying to directly detect dark matter: the missing mass in our universe. Now, there's a new, ...

Diamond is one of the hardest materials known to man, but experts think it can be squashed into something even harder. The ...

Since the 1960s, one constant in this ongoing pursuit of elusive subatomic knowledge has been the chemical element germanium. Situated in the carbon column of the periodic table between silicon ...

It was the first company to make transistors out of silicon and not germanium. The company was founded in Mountain View, California — so Shockley could be closer to his sick mother. Shockley's ...

But they have a rich history, going back through the silicon era to germanium junction transistors, and thence to the original devices. if you’ve ever looked at the symbol for a transistor and ...

Mario Paniccia, Intel fellow and director of Intel's Photonics Technology Lab, talks to Nature Photonics about the company's progress in commercializing high-speed silicon photonics. We have been ...