Silicon is so important for electronics and computing that it’s become synonymous with technology, but the stuff has its flaws. Now scientists have created a way to make super-pure silicon chips ...

Natural silicon is made up of three atoms of different mass (called isotopes) – silicon 28, 29 and 30. However the Si-29, making up around 5% of silicon, causes a ‘nuclear flip flopping ...

Researchers at the Universities of Melbourne and Manchester have invented a breakthrough technique for manufacturing highly purified silicon that brings powerful quantum computers a big step closer.

The new, ultra-pure form of the element silicon could help scientists create more stable qubits – essential for the functioning of a quantum computer.

Silicon is the 14th element on the periodic table, having the chemical symbol Si. It is the second most abundant element in ...

SYDNEY, Feb. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC), a pioneer in quantum computing and atomic manufacturing, today announced that it has demonstrated world-leading accuracy in ...

In a 2022 study by [Jiang Liu] et al. in Science it was reported that a perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell lost about 5% of its initial performance after 1,000 hours.

A battery cell with a pure silicon anode would therefore have a much higher volumetric energy density, which experts estimate at over 1000 watt hours per liter, where today 600 Wh/l are common.

The researchers directed a focused, high-speed beam of pure silicon-28 at a silicon chip so the silicon-28 gradually replaced the silicon-29 atoms in the chip, reducing silicon-29 from 4.5% to two ...

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