Whether in a smartphone or laptop, semiconductors form the basis of modern electronics and accompany us constantly in ...

It’s not solely the vulnerability of undersea cables that constrains US digital and military power, but China’s leverage over ...

The Coherent EOM is the only germanium-free ultra-fast switching solution on the market capable of producing pulses shorter ...

China’s exports of gallium and germanium, important materials used in semiconductor manufacturing, increased more than 10 per cent in July from a month earlier, as buyers ramped up purchases ahead of ...

Chicago, Aug. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global germanium market was valued at 280.56 million in 2024 and is expected to reach US$ 427.84 million by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 4.8% during the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Germanium was the basic material of first-generation transistors in the late 1940s and early 1950s before it was replaced by silicon (the first silicon transistor was produced by ...

Key opportunities in the germanium market include rising demand in fiber-optic telecom expansions, infrared optics for autonomous vehicles and industrial imaging, and quantum computing applications.

BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Prices of germanium, a strategic metal key to chipmaking, hit a record high on Wednesday in top producer China, driven by speculation of possible state buying, industry ...

One of the issues of current chip design is the excessive power needed to transport and store ever increasing amounts of data. A possible solution is to use optics not just for sending data, but also ...

A laboratory at Purdue University provided a critical part of the world's first transistor in 1947 – the purified germanium semiconductor – and now researchers here are on the forefront of a new ...

It consists of one-atom-thick sheets and it could revolutionize electronics ... but it’s not graphene. Chemists at Ohio State University, instead of creating graphene from carbon atoms, have used ...