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The device from the University of New South Wales team uses special semiconductors to collect infrared radiation emitted by the Earth and convert it into electricity.
Chinese researchers use conventional semiconductors to create a quantum light source - an important component for making quantum chips.
What would happen if a piece of gold was just as thin as one atom?
Intel's new multi-billion dollar semiconductor factory in Germany has helped archaeologists find two prehistoric graves from human sacrifices.
These chips are expected to bring unprecedented benefits such as extreme performance and super-fast heat dissipation.
For devices to continuously push the limits of performance, semiconductor engineers found a simple method: make the chips bigger and bigger.
The material is said to be the world's best semiconductor that transmits both electrons and holes, and conducts heat 10 times more efficiently than silicon.
A new high-strength mirror made from only diamond could be used in semiconductor manufacturing and deep space communication.
This is the largest semiconductor disk ever made with such high purity.
German scientists combined two types of absorbers to develop solar cells with a light conversion efficiency of up to 24%.
Photolithography comes from the Latin word for optical printing technique. In the past, people printed with inscriptions on stone. The sheets will be compressed onto the…
Germany's Helmholtz-Zentrum Research Institute (HZB) develops Tadem thin-film photovoltaic cells for energy conversion rates of up to 24.16%.
A team of European scientists has found a way to transfer electrons in the semiconductor circuits at the femtosecond scale (1 billionth of a billionth of a second) by ac…
William Shockley won the Nobel Prize but was named the worst leader in Silicon Valley, hated and ended his life in solitude.
Infrared semiconductor device takes advantage of the temperature difference between earth and space to produce electricity even at night.