Centre for Advanced Materials Manufacturing and Design, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, The University of Auckland, 314-390 Khyber Pass Road, Newmarket-1023, Auckland 1142,New ...

On its own, silicon makes lustrous, blue-grey crystals, but its chemical properties—namely, its affinity for oxygen—mean it's seldom found in a chemically pure state. Instead, most of the ...

REC Silicon is shutting a polysilicon plant in Moses Lake, Washington, that has struggled to achieve customers’ quality requirements. The plant is one of only a few in the US that manufactures ...

Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, School of Polymer Science and Engineering, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406, United States ...

Over four years ago, Apple announced that it was going to stop using Intel processors in its Macs and start using its own silicon. At the time, it sounded like a daunting task, but feasible thanks ...

Tom Boggioni is a writer, born, raised and living in San Diego — where he attended San Diego State University. Prior to writing for Raw Story, he wrote for FireDogLake, blogged as TBogg, and ...

Scientists say they have reached "a critical inflection point" after developing a technology that makes silicon-based quantum processors more viable. Quantum computing company Equal1 has created a ...

IPL therapy gives off less energy than laser treatments. To achieve the desired results, it may require more sessions over a longer time. IPL skin treatment uses many wavelengths to repair unwanted ...

Few lawmakers have done more than Rep. French Hill, a 68-year-old former community banker from Arkansas, to woo Silicon Valley’s support on Capitol Hill — and it just helped him rise to the ...

"This reaction should be observed in the upper atmosphere of Mars." Scientists have discovered a new way oxygen can form in carbon-dioxide-rich atmospheres of worlds beyond our own ...