It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of silicon when it comes to computing, solar energy, and other technological applications. Yet there is still so much to learn about how to harness ...

Silicon-carbon batteries are becoming a big deal when it comes to improving the endurance of your technology, so here's ...

A new “remote epitaxy” technique developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that exploits the “transparency” of graphene to atomic interactions could be used to ...

University spin-off exploits dislocation loops to force light out of silicon. Si-Light, a spin-out from the UK's University of Surrey, has received equity seed funding worth £150,000 ($284,000) to ...

Battery life; we can never have enough of it. Even though most smartphones from the past few years will easily take you through a day of use and possibly even two, the oldies among us still pine for ...