To many design and development engineers a beautifully laid out chip is a work of art in and of itself. But to others it is also a canvas. I have to confess, after more than a decade in and around the ...

While its residents toil away finding brilliant ways of disrupting our lives through groundbreaking technological innovations, Silicon Valley has become a place so ridiculous and prone to self-parody ...

Crystalline silicon (c-Si) is the most important semiconductor material for the electronics and photovoltaics industries today, and it has become the cornerstone of our knowledge-based society. This ...

Silicon Valley has spent its last three seasons highlighting and calling out various issues within, well, Silicon Valley. From the caffeine and drug-fueled world of startup culture to the cost of rent ...

Researchers uncovered how soft regions in amorphous silicon mix order and disorder, offering new insights for designing stronger amorphous materials. Persistence diagram obtained from the structure of ...

One of the biggest trends in PV manufacturing today is the adoption of black silicon – a technology that has been talked about for years but has only recently started to be produced at scale. Some of ...

All-optical signal generation and processing 1,2 have enabled a vast array of capabilities, such as switching and demultiplexing of signals at unprecedented speeds 3,4, parametric gain on a chip 5, ...