Our current chip technology is largely based on silicon -- even though different materials such as silicon-germanium would have decisive advantages. The problem is that it is very hard to create clean ...
Wind, L., Sistani, M., Böckle, R., Smoliner, J., VukÅ­sić, L., Aberl, J., Brehm, M., Schweizer, P., Maeder, X., Michler, J., Fournel, F., Hartmann, J.-M., Weber, W ...
(Nanowerk News) Our current chip technology is largely based on silicon. Only in very special components a small amount of germanium is added. But there are good reasons to use higher germanium ...