Using a specially developed etching apparatus, a team at HZB has now produced mesoporous silicon layers with countless tiny pores and investigated their electrical and thermal conductivity.

Major players in the silicone in electrical and electronic market are Silchem Inc., ICM Products Inc., Specialty Silicone Products Inc. (SSP), Wacker Chemie AG, Evonik Industries AG, Dow Corning ...

While studying different cross-linking structures in silicone, the research team stumbled upon the potential for electrical conductivity in a copolymer, which is a polymer chain containing two ...

When graduate student Pengpeng Zhang successfully imaged a piece of silicon just 10 nanometers-or a millionth of a centimeter-in thickness, she and her University of Wisconsin-Madison co ...

Carbon also improves electrical conductivity, ensuring better lithium-ion flow for improved efficiency. The trade-off is that Si/C anodes don’t achieve pure silicon’s full 10x capacity boost.

Silicon anodes are generally viewed as the next development in lithium-ion battery technology. Silicon’s ability to absorb more charge translates to longer battery life and smaller batteries, if ...

Gallium nitride, a semiconductor renowned for its efficiency and high-speed capabilities, has long been recognized as a ...

German researchers from the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg presented a new type of solar cells based on layers of nanocrystals.

In fact, conductivity at the nanoscale is completely independent of the added impurities, or dopants, that usually control silicon's electrical properties, the team reports.

In fact, conductivity at the nanoscale is completely independent of the added impurities, or dopants, that usually control silicon's electrical properties, the team reports. "What this tells us is ...