Feb

18

Putting Power On A Silicon Chip

February 18, 2016 | 1 Comment

Drexel University researchers have shown that their process for making carbon films and micro-supercapacitors will allow microchips to have their own power sources. The work is a culmination of more than half a decade of speculation, fabrication, modeling and testing by an international team of researchers led by Drexel University’s Yuri Gogotsi, PhD, and Patrice […]

Jan

28

A New Path to Silicon Production

January 28, 2013 | 2 Comments

A new way of making crystalline silicon could make the crucial ingredient of computers and solar cells much cheaper and greener.  It may also be useful in the topic of the post January 23rd, Nano Silicon Powder Produces Hydrogen Without Energy. Silicon dioxide, that we see as typical sand, makes up about 40 percent of […]

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