Researchers from FOM, the University of Amsterdam, the Delft University of Technology and the University of the Algarve have discovered that when light hits germanium nanocrystals, the crystals ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Germanium was the basic material of first-generation transistors in the late 1940s and early 1950s before it was replaced by silicon (the first silicon transistor was produced by ...

The Trump administration wants to use DARPA's Open Price Exploration for National Security (OPEN), an AI tool launched in 2023, to calculate what supplies of strategically important rare earths should ...

Applying a high magnetic field simulates microgravity conditions that suppress melt convection in germanium single crystal ...

Researchers at MIT have demonstrated the first laser that uses the element germanium. The laser, which operates at room temperature, could prove to be an important step toward computer chips that move ...

Glass fibers do everything from connecting us to the internet to enabling keyhole surgery by delivering light through medical devices such as endoscopes. But as versatile as today's fiber optics are, ...

It consists of one-atom-thick sheets and it could revolutionize electronics ... but it’s not graphene. Chemists at Ohio State University, instead of creating graphene from carbon atoms, have used ...

Good news for the computer industry: a team of researchers has managed to make germanium suitable for lasers. This could enable microprocessor components to communicate using light in future, which ...

Swiss scientists have created the first semiconductor laser consisting solely of elements of main group IV (the carbon group) on the periodic table. Simply, this means that the new device is directly ...

Sometimes, a technique or technology that initiates a radical or dramatic advance is soon itself overtaken by a variation or improvement on that initial innovation, with an excellent example being ...