As India embarks on its ambitious energy transition, powered by advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, and clean-tech, a ...

Beijing responded by banning exports to the U.S. of certain critical minerals needed to make computer chips, such as gallium, germanium and antimony ... The U.S. does not produce it, but South Korea ...

Built from stacked ultrathin layers of silicon germanium-tin and germanium-tin ... They have already demonstrated the potential for applications in photonics, electronics, thermoelectric, and ...

In 2023, China imposed restrictions on exports to the U.S. of two critical minerals, gallium and germanium. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently set out to quantify the potential economic ...

This trend highlights the potential of future microchips ... which are challenging and costly to integrate with silicon. This new laser overcomes that barrier, aligning with conventional CMOS ...

Because of its natural abundance across the world, it could become a potential replacement for uranium and be used to create energy over the long term. At the same time, uranium-233, the primary ...

Scientists have developed the first electrically pumped continuous-wave semiconductor laser composed exclusively of elements from the fourth group of the periodic table—the "silicon group.

As production scales and cost barriers are reduced ... including increased R&D in silicon-based nanowire anodes, which have the potential to significantly enhance the energy density of batteries.

Matthew Marino, a professor at the University of Central Florida who studies the intersection of technology and special education, is excited about the potential of generative artificial ...

Once a by-product of zinc mining, germanium is now recognised for its unique properties and potential benefits across ... just below silicon. Like silicon, germanium has semiconducting properties ...

Next on the list of potential bans, experts say ... such properties as high conductivity is crucial: gallium and germanium increasingly are used in advanced semiconductors in place of silicon. The ...