During the last four decades, a remarkable research effort has been made to understand the physical properties of Si:Er material, as it is considered to be a promising approach towards improving the ...

A new silicon material switches from insulator to metal in picoseconds. This breakthrough could speed up future computers.

A new method of changing electronic states on demand could make electronics 1,000 times faster and more efficient, ...

In nuclear physics, "magic numbers" identify specific numbers of protons or neutrons that lead to especially stable nuclei.

Radio frequency facing target sputtering (RF-FTS) has a potential to deposit high-quality intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon (i-a-Si:H) passivation layers for silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar ...