Silicon is a chemical element with the symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic lustre. Silicon is the second most abundant element in Earth’s ...

Silicon carbide (SiC) dust is one of the most important ingredients in cosmic dust, the tiny particles floating throughout ...

Plants and algae make their fuel from sunlight. Perhaps we could do the same using semiconductors. A team of scientists at ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Jülich Research Center and the Leibniz Institute for Innovative Microelectronics (IHP) have developed a material that has never existed before: a stable alloy of carbon, silicon, ...

There was no single moment when the modern electronics era began. No switch was flipped, no machine suddenly came to life. Instead, the transformation started from the simple realization that a common ...

Incorporating silicon into drug scaffolds could help to fine-tune their medicinal properties. The carbon-silicon bond is ...