Feb 25, 2025 Mesoporous silicon: Semiconductor with new talents Using a specially developed etching apparatus, researchers produced mesoporous silicon layers with countless tiny pores and investigated ...

A “superatomic” material has become the fastest semiconductor known and could lead to computer chips that are hundreds or thousands of times speedier than anything available today. The silicon ...

Scientists have found that a “superatomic” material is the fastest and most efficient semiconductor ever. Taking advantage of a tortoise-and-hare mechanism, the new material can transport ...

Silicon is the best-known semiconductor material. However, controlled nanostructuring drastically alters the material's properties. Using a specially developed etching apparatus, a team has ...

Flash-freezing reveals how cooling speed shapes silicon crystal layers, offering insights into defect-free growth for ...

Silicon is abundant and easy to come by, but boron arsenide not so much. The researchers make it clear that it’s still uncertain whether cubic boron arsenide can ever be harnessed in a large ...

Two wafers containing silicon chips at the Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute in Hsinchu. Taiwan is a colossus in the global market for semiconductors, the brains of modern electronics.

Silicon’s performance as a semiconductor, however, leaves much to be desired. The issues with the material are twofold. The first concerns the mobility of its “holes”, which are regions of positive ...