Foremost among silicon's distinguishing features is that, quite simply, there is a hell of a lot of it. After oxygen, it's the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust -- but don't expect to ...

By adding silicon to battery anodes, energy storage can be doubled or even tripled. Ph.D. student Ali Abo Hamad at FSCN Research Center has developed a sustainable method to make silicon suitable for ...

Whether it's our phones, cars, televisions, medical devices or even washing machines, we now have computers everywhere. Using bigger computers, we solve bigger problems like managing the operation of ...

Solar cells convert three-quarters of the energy contained in the Sun‘s spectrum into electricity — yet the infrared spectrum is entirely lost in standard solar cells. In contrast, black silicon solar ...