Science news articles about 'crystal silicon'

... at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. While conventional single-crystal silicon solar cells can approach efficiencies of 18 percent, they are very expensive, said Ron Ott, ORNL’s program ...

... . Back in 2005, the pair developed a one-dimensional, stretchable form of single-crystal silicon that could be stretched in one direction without altering its electrical properties; the results were ...

... - and precisely aligning - microscopic, spear-shaped zinc oxide crystals on a surface of single-crystal silicon, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology may have developed a ...