But when the task at hand is growing oxide layers on silicon chips in preparation for making your own integrated circuits, it turns out that the old Mark 1 eyeball is all you need. Alert readers ...

Oxides contain at least one oxygen atom, and silicon oxide may refer to silicon dioxide (SiO 2) or silicon monoxide (SiO). Silicon dioxide is a hard, glassy mineral found in materials such as rock ...

Headquartered in Val-des-Sources, Quebec, Canada, the company changed its name from "Asbestos" to its current name in 2012. It has acquired tailings from two major asbestos-producing regions in Quebec ...

With a slender sheet of lab-grown bismuth and an architecture unlike anything inside today’s silicon chips, they’ve built ...

The video below shows his two-step process, which first blasts the silicon oxide layer off the wafer before doping with the laser shining through a bath of phosphoric acid. The process is ...

Generally, poly-silicons with heavy doping of either n-type or p-type is used as gate material. Here, silicon dioxide (SiO 2 or simply oxide) is used as an insulator. By implanting donor impurities in ...

Scientists at Spain's Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya (IREC) have fabricated a transparent solar cell based on hydrogenated amorphous silicon oxide. They say it could be used for ...

This study creates a new integration method for silicon-based oxide electronics, showcasing the broad applicability of the hybrid transfer and epitaxy strategy across various oxide material systems.

Jointly led by faculty from MIT and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, WISDOM will focus on developing ultra-thin, scalable sensing devices, helping machines such as autonomous vehicles and ...