X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Silicon


Nanoarchitectures for lithium-ion batteries

Silicon has been considered as an anode material because it supports larger amounts of lithium-ion intercalation.

Silicon-controlled rectifier

A silicon-controlled rectifier (or semiconductor-controlled rectifier) is a four-layer solid state current controlling device.


1N4001 and 1N5400 series diodes

In the version of these components manufactured for Fairchild Semiconductor by Suzhou, the silicon chip that rectifies the current weighs just 880 micrograms.

2012 American Le Mans Series season

On November 11, 2011, it was announced that Rolex Sports Car Series team Dempsey Racing, owned by Hollywood actor/driver Patrick Dempsey and driver Joe Foster, and Silicon Tech Racing (STR), owned by racer Henri Richard, would partner, creating Silicon Tech/Dempsey Racing, to campaign an Oreca FLM09 in the LMP Challenge class for the 2012 season.

Advanced Silicon Etch

Advanced Silicon Etch (ASE) is a deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) technique to rapidly etch deep and high aspect ratio structures in silicon.

Andrew Fraknoi

Since 1999, Fraknoi has organized and moderated the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series, where noted astronomers from around California and the nation give nontechnical public talks on new developments in our exploration of the universe in the large Smithwick Theater at Foothill College.

Anglefort

The Électricité de France (EDF) Dam is on the Rhone river in the territory of the commune and there is a factory producing silicon.

ARM architecture

They chose VLSI Technology as the silicon partner, as they were a source of ROMs and custom chips for Acorn.

Caswell, Northamptonshire

The GaAs Field effect transistor and the GaAs monolithic ic were invented and developed at Caswell, but what is probably less well known is that scientists on the site were working on silicon integrated circuit(ic) technology almost 18 months before Jack Kilby demonstrated the first working ic at Texas Instruments in Dallas.

Charles Fritts

Solar cells later became practical for power uses after Russell Ohl's 1941 development of silicon p/n junction cells that reached efficiencies above 5% by the 1950s/1960s.

Cray MTA-2

The MTA-2 was an attempt to correct these problems while maintaining essentially the same processor architecture respun in one silicon ASIC, down from some 26 gallium arsenide ASICs in the original MTA; and while advancing the network design from a 4-D torus topology to a more scalable Cayley graph topology.

Cupalite

Both minerals are thus far restricted to the area of Listvenitovyi Stream, in the Khatyrka ultramafic (silicon-poor) zone of the Koryak–Kamchatka fold area, Koryak Mountains, Beringovsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.

Dan Pulcrano

Pulcrano used SXSW as an inspiration for a technology and arts festival in Silicon Valley, C2SV.

Deanna Summers

She is co-owner of Silicon Music Publishing and many of her compositions have been recorded by various artists.

Deep reactive-ion etching

It was developed for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), which require these features, but is also used to excavate trenches for high-density capacitors for DRAM and more recently for creating through silicon via's (TSV)'s in advanced 3D wafer level packaging technology .

Denis Dyack

He founded Silicon Knights in 1992 after publishing Cyber Empires in 1991.

East Palo Alto, California

Significant gentrification occurred in East Palo Alto from around 2000, with the construction of a large shopping center named Ravenswood 101 (including a Home Depot, a Best Buy, and an IKEA store) and several upscale housing communities (intended for high-earning Silicon Valley workers).

Edsurge

The company’s initial funding was led by The Washington Post Company and NewSchools Venture Fund, along with angel investors including Allen & Company’s Nancy Peretsman and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Judith Estrin.

Ferroalloy

Ferroalloy refers to various alloys of iron with a high proportion of one or more other elements such as manganese, aluminium, or silicon.

Gwen Bell

The story of the early history of the computer museums as The Digital Computer Museum at Digital Equipment Corp. in Maynard MA (1975), The Computer Museum Marlboro MA (1979-1984), moving to Boston (1984-1999) prior to its move to Silicon Valley as The Computer Museum History Center (1995-2000) and becoming the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA (2000) is given in Gordon Bell's Microsoft Technical Report MSR-TR-2011-44, Out of a Closet: The Early Years of the Computer Museums.

IQE

IQE Silicon was established in a new facility adjacent to the group's headquarters and European manufacturing base in Cardiff, Wales, UK.

Jack Kilby

Berlin, Leslie The man behind the microchip: Robert Noyce and the invention of Silicon Valley Publisher Oxford University Press US, 2005 ISBN 0-19-516343-5

Jump Shot Media

After discussing his idea with music producer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Keith Andrews (former co-founder of Procera Networks and CEO of AuraOne Systems), the two tweaked the concept into scalable mobile game platform.

Kane quantum computer

Often thought of as a hybrid between quantum dot and NMR quantum computers, the Kane computer is based on an array of individual phosphorus donor atoms embedded in a pure silicon lattice.

Linux user group

For example Linus Torvalds has occasionally talked to SVLUG or BALUG (which are close to his former home in Silicon Valley), and Hans Reiser (creator of ReiserFS) presented his early design plans at an SVLUG meeting.

Mario Celotto

On February 4, 2011, arranged by the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, Celotto visited a physics class in Yerba Buena High School in San Jose, California to demonstrate how Newton's laws of motion apply to football.

MEMC

MEMC Electronic Materials, a United States manufacturer of silicon wafers for the semiconductor industry

NASA Pathfinder

The new center section was topped by more-efficient silicon solar cells developed by SunPower Corporation of Sunnyvale, California, which could convert almost 19 percent of the solar energy they receive to useful electrical energy to power the craft's motors, avionics and communication systems.

Ne-XVP

The project undertook a holistic approach to define a next generation multimedia processing architecture for embedded MPSoCs that targets programmability, performance scalability, and silicon efficiency in an evolutionary way.

Nikasil

Suzuki currently uses a race-proven nickel phosphorus-silicon-carbide proprietary coating trademarked SCEM (Suzuki Composite Electro-chemical Material) to maximize cylinder size and improve heat dissipation, e.g., on the engine of the Suzuki TL1000S, V-Strom 650, TU250X and Hayabusa motorcycles.

Peninsula Engineering Group, Inc.

The experiences they went through in financing the company served as inspiration for Barry Leff to explore the subject in greater detail; his doctoral dissertation at Golden Gate University was titled "Financing the Start-up of Silicon Valley High-Tech Companies".

Raphael Tsu

During 1985-1987 Tsu served as the amorphous silicon program group leader at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (then known as SERI, Solar Energy Research Institute) in Golden, CO.

Savvas Chamberlain

During his time at the University of Waterloo, he invented many silicon image sensors, introduced new technology on MOSFET and Charge-coupled devices (CCDs) devices, and developed some fundamental theories.

Sharks Sports and Entertainment

The company was established in 2000 as Silicon Valley Sports and Entertainment by Sharks owners Gordon and George Gund III to manage the business operations of the team, San Jose Arena (now SAP Center at San Jose) and the events held at the arena.

Silanization of silicon and mica

Silanization of silicon and mica is the coating of these materials with a thin layer of self assembling units.

Silicon Alley

First Tuesday, co-founded by Vincent Grimaldi de Puget and John Grossbart, became the largest gathering of Silicon Alley, welcoming 500 to 1000 venture capitalists and entrepreneurs every month.

Silicon compiler

Silicon compilation was first described in 1979 by David L. Johannsen, under the guidance of his thesis adviser, Carver Mead.

Silicon Heaven

According to the novel Backwards, the concept of Silicon Heaven was eventually replaced with a variant on Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.

Silicon Hill

Silicon Hill with approximately 4,200 members is the largest club of Student Union CTU located in Petřín, Prague, CZ.

Silicon Institute of Technology

Sabyasachi Mishra, popular film star, completed his B Tech in Electronics & Telecom from silicon institute of technology.

Silicon Valley Network

Silicon Valley Network is an initiative to create free wireless coverage throughout the Bay Area, or at least in San Francisco and the Peninsula.

Solid

Polymers which have been around, and which are in current widespread use, include carbon-based polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene, nylons, polyesters, acrylics, polyurethane, and polycarbonates, and silicon-based silicones.

Spatika Lingam

Sphatikam is made up of a continuous framework of SiO4 siliconoxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall formula Terman

Frederick Terman (engineer; 1900-1982), Provost of Stanford University, credited with establishing Silicon Valley

The Accidental Billionaires

Sean Parker of Napster fame becomes a mentor to Zuckerberg and guides him through Silicon Valley venture capitalists and other players in the industry.

Thomas Scoville

Two major works render an insider's perspective on life in technology startups: The satirical Silicon Valley Tarot published in 1998 and Silicon Follies, an online serial novel running on Salon.com in 1999, eventually finding its way to hardcover publication by Pocket Books and a television pilot by Ron Howard's Imagine Television.

Tom Baruch

While at CMEA, Tom led investments including major IPO's and significant liquidity events for Aclara Biosciences, which merged with Monogram Biosciences (MRGM); Netro (NTRO); Entropic Communications, Inc. (ENTR); Flextronics (FLEX); Symyx Technologies (SMMX); Silicon Spice, acquired by Broadcom (BRCM); Codexis, Inc (CDXS), and Intermolecular (IMI).

Tyranny of numbers

Although successful in this goal, it was Robert Noyce's silicon version and the associated fabrication techniques that make the integrated circuit (IC) truly practical.

Vågsbygd

The largest employer is all the same Elkem Solar producing super clean Silicon for solar cells, which are located in premises that Elkem previous Ferrosilicon factory Fiskå Verk.


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