Work could ultimately lead to electrical conductors that are 100 percent efficient The future of electronics could lie in a material from its past, as researchers from The Ohio State Univers... Read more
An international team of scientists constructs the first germanium-tin semiconductor laser for silicon chips Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switz... Read more
Good news for the computer industry: a team of researchers has managed to make germanium suitable for lasers. This could enable microprocessor components to communicate using light in future... Read more
Thin Layer of Germanium May Replace Silicon in Semiconductors The same material that formed the first primitive transistors more than 60 years ago can be modified in a new way to advance fut... Read more
“Photonics brings true parallel processing, emulating the human brain” A firm headed by an Indian American has claimed to have achieved a breakthrough in Physics which wil... Read more
Image via Wikipedia MIT researchers have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium that can produce wavelengths of light useful for optical communication. It’s also the first g... Read more