But when the task at hand is growing oxide layers on silicon chips in preparation for making your own integrated circuits, it turns out that the old Mark 1 eyeball is all you need. Alert readers ...

Researchers at the University of Twente have solved a long-standing problem: trapping optically-generated sound waves in a standard silicon photonic chip. This discovery, published as a featured ...

Silicon has sp3 covalent bonds, which weakens its ability to conduct electricity when its crystal structure becomes disordered ... “Or we can weave metal oxide fibres into textiles and mount ...