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Slicing solar power costs: New method cuts waste in making most efficient solar cells

September 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 35 vote(s) | User comments: 2

University of Utah engineers devised a new way to slice thin wafers of the chemical element germanium for use in the most efficient type of solar power cells. They say the new method should lower the cost ...


IBM Develops Computational Scaling Solution for Next Generation '22nm' Semiconductors

September 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 17 vote(s) | User comments: 2

In response to ever increasing demands for smaller, more powerful and energy-efficient devices for cloud computing and high-performance servers, IBM today announced the semiconductor industry's first computationally based ...