(SiGe) A semiconductor material made from silicon and germanium. Germanium is very similar to silicon, but when one layer is grown on top of the other to form the base of the transistor ...

Since the 1960s, one constant in this ongoing pursuit of elusive subatomic knowledge has been the chemical element germanium.

Many people giving talks had complained about the current germanium transistors -- they had a bad habit of not working at high temperatures. Silicon, since it's right above germanium on the ...

But they have a rich history, going back through the silicon era to germanium junction transistors, and thence to the original devices. if you’ve ever looked at the symbol for a transistor and ...

It was the first company to make transistors out of silicon and not germanium. The company was founded in Mountain View, California — so Shockley could be closer to his sick mother. Shockley's ...

“Devices like photodetectors, multi-junction solar cells, microprocessors [and] modulators, based on Ge-on-Si [germanium on silicon] technology must tackle these issues in order to achieve ...

A technique that deposits silicon (Si) on top of silicon germanium (SiGe) for making transistors on a chip. In so doing, the silicon atoms are stretched ("strained") to line up with the silicon ...

Since the 1960s, one constant in this ongoing pursuit of elusive subatomic knowledge has been the chemical element germanium.

But they have a rich history, going back through the silicon era to germanium junction transistors, and thence to the original devices. if you’ve ever looked at the symbol for a transistor and ...

Mario Paniccia, Intel fellow and director of Intel's Photonics Technology Lab, talks to Nature Photonics about the company's progress in commercializing high-speed silicon photonics. We have been ...

In 1947, the first transistor, the basic building block for a digital computer, was made using a semiconducting material thought to be ideal for the task: germanium. The idea of using silicon didn ...

The process relies on spark plasma sintering to dope the silicon with germanium and phosphorus. The combination of doping and reduced thermal conductivity is designed to improve the power ...