Crystalline quartz films grown on four-inch silicon wafers detect Chikungunya virus at sensitivities surpassing standard ...

Lattice Materials, a Montana-based manufacturer specializing in custom-grown silicon and germanium crystals and part of The Partner Companies (TPC), has received an $18.5 million award from the U.S.

A silicon wafer is a thin slice of crystalline silicon typically grown using the Czochralski process, which involves pulling a crystal seed from a molten silicon bath. A silicon wafer is a thin slice ...

Scientists from Fraunhofer IISB, Wacker Chemie and Alzchem say unwelcome metals enter the silicon primarily through coating of the quartz crucible. The finding could enable manufacturers to make ...

Research from the Chin-Yi University of Technology in Taiwan revealed a novel heater design in the Czochralski silicon crystal growth process that can control and decrease oxygen concentration without ...

Defense Investment Strengthens U.S. Supply Chain for Advanced Optical Technologies Supporting National Security . BOZEMAN, Mont., Dec. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Lattice Materials ( ...

Currently quartz crystal-based oscillators are among the most common type of clock source in electronics, providing a ...

BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y., June 28, 2018 /CNW/ -- Solar-Tectic LLC ("ST") announced today that a breakthrough patent application for an amorphous silicon/crystalline silicon thin film tandem solar cell ...

Mysterious forces may be a reliable trope in science fiction, but in reality, physicists have long agreed that all interactions between objects evidently arise from just four fundamental forces. Yet ...

Foremost among silicon's distinguishing features is that, quite simply, there is a hell of a lot of it. After oxygen, it's the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust -- but don't expect to ...