UC Irvine-led research reveals that the optical properties of materials can be dramatically enhanced—not by changing the ...

A study shows photon momentum enables diagonal transitions, converting indirect semiconductors like silicon into direct ones, ...

Silicon is a semiconductor in group IVA of the periodic table with atomic number 14, an atomic weight of 28.086, and a density of 2.33 Mg/m 3. It melts at 1410 C. The electronic configuration of the ...

Crucially, the scientists devised a novel method to map the direction of phonon travel. They found that sharper atomic interfaces between the quantum dots and surrounding silicon more effectively ...

Silicon photonics is the study of the optical properties of the group-IV semiconductor and the design and fabrication of devices for generating, manipulating and detecting light. Silicon is ...

Ruping Cao Ferguson, John Bakker, Arjen Korthorst, Twan Arriordaz, Alexandre and O'Connor, Ian 2015. Photonic designs with EDA approach: A novel methodology for curve design validation. p. 29.

If you want to improve the reliability of your electronics, just cover them in silicone or epoxy. Potting, as this technique is called, protects your project from impact and loose wires ...

This study employed computational methods to demonstrate increased thermal conductance across thin films through phonon funneling. Systematic atomistic simulations were conducted on silicon and ...

Since the 1960s, technological advances have enabled silicon transistors to keep shrinking, causing computational capability to grow exponentially. However, transistors cannot shrink much further; ...

More information: Yibo Huang et al, Giant Kerr nonlinearity of terahertz waves mediated by stimulated phonon polaritons in a microcavity chip, Light: Science & Applications (2024). DOI ...