Over on ScienceDaily we learn that an international team of scientists have turned a common semiconductor germanium into a superconductor. Researchers have been able to make the semiconductor ...

In today’s digital age, silicon is king. But as with other semiconductors that are widely used in the industry, trace quantities of other elements are often added to silicon to influence its ...

Germanium nanocrystals and quantum dots have emerged as pivotal components in modern semiconductor applications, owing to their unique quantum confinement effects and tunable optoelectronic properties ...

Researchers show that nanometre-thin germanium on silicon enables high charge mobility, supporting energy-efficient operation ...

BANGKOK — China announced Tuesday it is banning exports to the United States of gallium, germanium, antimony and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications, as a general ...

China has imposed export restrictions on gallium and germanium, two crucial elements in the microchip industry, in a move that many see as both pragmatic and retaliatory against the U.S. Despite this, ...

Our current chip technology is largely based on silicon -- even though different materials such as silicon-germanium would have decisive advantages. The problem is that it is very hard to create clean ...

AMONG the 1,000 workers at the Baddow Research Centre of Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company is a group working on semiconductor research. So, 64 years ago started a story in Electronics Weekly’s ...

FILE - A man works at a manufacturer of Integrated Chip encapsulation in Nantong in eastern China’s Jiangsu province on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Chinatopix Via AP, File) BANGKOK (AP) — China announced ...