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The Motley Fool October 26, 2004 Rich Smith	Silicon Labs Goes Boom! After laying down a solid quarterly report, the company added a caution for the fourth quarter, sending the stock down 21%.
IEEE Spectrum October 2011 Ozpinec & Tolbert	Silicon Carbide: Smaller, Faster, Tougher Meet the material that will supplant silicon in hybrid cars and the electric grid
Technology Research News June 29, 2005	Silicon light switch is electric Researchers created a small silicon device, driven by optics, that could result in faster computer chips.
Technology Research News February 9, 2005	Silicon nanocrystal transistor shines A nanocrystal field-effect light-emitting device (FELED) could be used to integrate light sources on computer chips. This would allow the light sources and control circuits of display and communications device to be fabricated together, making for a faster, cheaper manufacturing process.
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The Motley Fool January 26, 2007 Dan Bloom	Silicon Labs' New Chip Silicon Labs has introduced a product that will make it easier for any device manufacturer to add AM/FM radio listening functionality to small handheld devices. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool July 22, 2005 W.D. Crotty	Silicon Labs: Chips, Cheap The chip maker still struggles, but it's also banking cash. The company's shares are selling for 20.1 times expected 2006 earnings. For a cash-rich company with Silicon Labs' anticipated growth, that's downright cheap.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007	Silicon Wafer Shipments Experience Growth for the Fifth Consecutive Year Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased by 20 percent in 2006 when compared to 2005 area shipments according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG).
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BusinessWeek September 23, 2010 Oliver Staley	Innovator: Walt de Herr Smaller, power-hungry processors push the limits of silicon. Physicist Walt de Heer thinks nanotechnology can provide a solution.
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IEEE Spectrum June 2011 Richard Stevenson	Silicon Is Key to Quest for $5 LED Lightbulb Bridgelux process grows gallium-nitride on high-volume silicon wafers
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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Technology Research News January 28, 2004	Nanotubes tied to silicon circuit Connecting minuscule nanotube transistors to traditional silicon transistors enables the atomic-scale electronics to communicate with existing electronic equipment.
Chemistry World July 22, 2011 Kate McAlpine	Self-assembling DNA structures carve out a niche Researchers have used DNA nanostructures to create raised ridges and tiny trenches in silicon dioxide using an etching technique.
Chemistry World August 9, 2013 Daniel Johnson	Mystery of jumping crystals solved The riddle of why a certain type of crystal leaps more than 10,000 times its length when exposed to light may have been solved. The crystals' rapid movement is a result of stresses generated in the crystal when light induces a structural change within it.
PC Magazine August 30, 2006 John C. Dvorak	Inside Track v25n16 There needs to be something besides high-end games that can suck up all the power of Intel's dual-core chips. This desperation will only get worse when Intel rolls out the four-core chip.
Technology Research News September 8, 2004 Eric Smalley	Chip Architecture Uses Nanowires Nanoelectronics could eventually replace today's silicon chipmaking techniques when today's techniques run their course in a decade or two.
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Geotimes November 2003 Lisa Corathers	Mineral Resource of the Month: Silicon The Silicon Commodity Specialist for the U.S. Geological Survey has compiled this information about silicon, an extremely versatile mineral with many applications in the manufacture of iron and steel, aluminum alloys, chemicals, and electronic microchips.
IEEE Spectrum August 2008 Neil Savage	Cheaper LEDs Possible by Growing Gallium Nitride on Silicon Engineers take a step toward cheaper solid-state lighting.
Chemistry World July 16, 2015 Jenny Lovell	Alkyne insertion imparts silicon stereochemistry Scientists in Japan have reported a way of inserting alkynes into carbon -- silicon bonds, also known as alkynylsilylation, that creates silicon stereogenic centers with high enantioselectivity.
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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.
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.
Chemistry World October 2007 Philip Ball	The Crucible Feel free to make photovoltaics better. But don't forget they have to be cheaper, too.
InternetNews October 7, 2005 Clint Boulton	Intel to Pick Up Digital TV Assets With an eye toward shoring up its silicon technology for digital televisions, Intel will buy Zarlink Semiconductor.
Chemistry World May 9, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Cracks break the rules of nanofabrication When it comes to nanofabrication, cracks are usually best avoided. But now researchers in South Korea have discovered that cracks aren't always bad - if harnessed, they can be used to make controlled patterns.
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?
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.
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.
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PC Magazine November 22, 2004 John R. Quain	Changing Chip Architecture The more semiconductor components, you can pile on top of one another on a single block, the greater the cost savings. That's the idea behind the 3D chip technology from Matrix Semiconductor.
Technology Research News February 23, 2005	Metal atoms make silicon magnetic Devices made from magnetic semiconductors can make use of the spin of the electron in addition to its charge. These spintronics devices are potentially faster and consume less power than today' electronics.
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Chemistry World March 7, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Diatoms Transformed Into Silicon Sensors Materials scientists have found a simple method of converting frustules - the intricate silica-based skeletons of common single celled photosynthetic organisms called diatoms - into pure silicon structures with many applications.