Researchers from the University of Warwick and the National Research Council of Canada have engineered a strained germanium ...

Scientists have developed the first electrically pumped continuous-wave semiconductor laser composed exclusively of elements from the fourth group of the periodic table—the "silicon group." The rapid ...

(Nanowerk News) Over the past 70 years, the number of transistors on a chip has doubled approximately every two years – according to Moore’s Law, which is still valid today. The circuits have become ...

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 ...

Like carbon and silicon, germanium’s lighter brethren on the periodic table, the metalloid can bond to four different groups, forming a chiral, tetrahedral molecule. Researchers at Nankai University ...