Move over cyclopentadiene anion—there’s a new five-membered aromatic ring in town, and this one is made of silicon. Two research teams working independently report the first examples of ...

MIT researchers have designed silicon structures that can perform calculations in an electronic device using excess heat ...

Physicists found why holes move slower than electrons in silicon: not defects, but higher intrinsic mass, supporting CMOS-based quantum, cryogenic, and space devices.

MIT engineers use heat-conducting silicon microstructures to perform matrix multiplication with >99% accuracy hinting at ...

Researchers from KAUST, TU Delft, and LMU Munich have improved the performance of monolithic perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells by modifying the physical structure at the front of the bottom ...

Silicon solar cells were supposed to be running out of headroom, yet a new device has pushed their performance to 27.81% efficiency and reset expectations for what a single-junction cell can do. That ...

Carbon's unique chemical properties allow it to be an essential building block for life on Earth and many other molecules we rely on for day-to-day life—but what about carbon's neighbor? Silicon is ...