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Technology Research News March 10, 2004 Eric Smalley	Red wine mends solar cells Researchers from the University of Toledo have found a way to increase energy production using red wine.
InternetNews December 7, 2004 Michael Singer	IBM Perks Up Memory, Transistors The company shrinks its SRAM and adds a dash of germanium fuel to its chips.
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Eric Smalley	Nanowires make flexible circuits Nanowires might one day be used to make microscopic machines. But before then they could help liberate computer circuits from the rigid, expensive confines of silicon chips. A process that makes thin films from semiconductor nanowires improves the prospects for plastic electronics and electronic paper.
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IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Alexander Hellemans	Strange Bedfellows Hybrid microcircuits, incorporating the desirable properties of the III-V compounds with those of cheap and ubiquitous silicon substrates, might soon find an important niche in electronics after all.
Chemistry World February 14, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Efficient solar cells from silicon wires US researchers have designed a new silicon-based solar cell which uses 100 times less silicon than conventional photovoltaic devices.
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Technology Research News January 12, 2005	Silicon Surfaces Speed Circuits Researchers have devised a way to use the chemistry of silicon surfaces to make smaller chip features.
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IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Neil Savage	Silicon Nanowires Turn Heat to Electricity Thermoelectric converters could tap waste heat from power plants and microchips.
Scientific American July 2008 Steven Ashley	Engineering Silicon Solar Cells to Make Photovoltaic Power Affordable Baby steps for making solar as cheap as coal power.
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IEEE Spectrum August 2008 Richard Stevenson	First Solar: Quest for the $1 Watt Within five years, this company's thin-film solar cells could compete with coal
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Technology Research News July 28, 2004	Process prints silicon on plastic The components could be used in flexible large-area displays, radiofrequency ID tags, sensors, and flexible applications like reconfigurable antennas.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2007 Gurnett & Adams	Merging the Functionalities of Silicon, and III-Vs: Two Promising Approaches One of the least flexible rules in electronic design is the need to keep silicon devices, and compound semiconductor devices separate. Two new developments are now threatening to make this rule partly or entirely obsolete.
Chemistry World January 20, 2010 James Urquhart	Disilicate synthesis success A compound containing a stable silicon-silicon bond between two negatively charged pentacoordinated silicon atoms - silicates - has been synthesized and isolated for the first time by Japanese researchers.
IEEE Spectrum March 2013 Joachim N. Burghartz	Make Way for Flexible Silicon Chips We need them because thin, pliable organic semiconductors are too slow to serve in tomorrow's chips. Seamless integration of computing into everyday objects isn't quite here yet.
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IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Samuel K. Moore	Cheap Chips for Next Wireless Frontier IBM engineers unveiled the first experimental 60-GHz transmitter and receiver chips. Now, researchers are presenting three key transceiver components built in a widely available and inexpensive silicon process technology.
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Chemistry World March 5, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Desperately Seeking Silicon Silicon has been blamed for the faulty fuel that caused thousands of UK cars to break down last week. How can a silvery-gray semi-metal popularly known to be used in computer chips have found its way into gasoline?