Given existing methods for making microcircuits, de Heer expects coated wafers to be more useful than graphene flakes. |
Not far off, say the technology's developers, are photonic microcircuits that process light beams the way today's microelectronics chips process electric currents. |
Silicon wafers used for building microcircuits are usually polished at one specific angle to the atomic planes of silicon. |
Fluorescent lighting in chip factories creates tiny, possibly troublesome welts on the silicon used to make microcircuits, new experiments suggest. |
As if damaging incredibly delicate microcircuits was a helpful response to a problem, Verbena Beeks shook the hand-link. |
The most time-consuming and expensive step in constructing microcircuits focuses a pattern of light onto a semiconductor surface coated with a photosensitive film. |