National University of Singapore scientists claim that vapor-deposited perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells built on industrial silicon wafers achieve both high efficiency and long-term thermal ...

First successful use of vapor deposition on industrial silicon wafers delivers unprecedented durability in perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells. (Nanowerk News) Researchers from the National ...

Researchers engineered a strained germanium layer on silicon that allows charge to move faster than in any silicon-compatible material to date. This record mobility could lead to chips that run cooler ...

Fixing a flat tire is never fun, but you can make the experience even worse than usual by not keeping the right tools on hand to tackle the task. Obviously, investing in a top-notch car jack — or, ...

A new technical paper titled “Heterogeneously integrated lithium tantalate-on-silicon nitride modulators for high-speed communications” was published by researchers at EPFL, Chinese Academy of ...

Second-quarter operating margins of GlobalWafers, its parent Sino-American Silicon, and competitor Sumco all dropped sequentially. All three firms were hurt by the strong US dollar and incurred ...

10x Genomics is stepping up to buy Scale Biosciences and its single-cell profiling solutions, with plans to implement them within the company’s Chromium platform. The deal for the recent Fierce ...

About a week ago, a viral post declared that on July 19, China had “killed the silicon wafer.” The claim was explosive: a breakthrough in a new semiconductor material called indium selenide (InSe) had ...

The price of key solar panel components in China surged the most in two years, driven by production cuts and a broader government push to address industry overcapacity. Wafer prices rose 22% in the ...

Elias Valverde II / Staff Photographer TAIPEI — Taiwanese silicon wafer manufacturer GlobalWafers said Friday it would invest an additional $4 billion in the United States to meet growing customer ...