Sentences with phrase «of silicon»

The inside is made of silicon material which is easy to wipe when it gets dirty.

I had to resort to rolling it on a piece of silicon paper and going down that route, but even then I couldn't lift the edges over without them breaking!

To speed it up, scientists built devices out of extremely thin layers of silicon, along with magnesium, which is naturally found in the human body.

It lacks an atmosphere, and pulling oxygen out of the silicon dioxide soil would present a tough engineering challenge.

Old - school solar technology uses large crystals made out of silicon, which produces an electrical current when struck by light.

A Solar system consists of silicon solar panels which have cells in them that get «charged» or «excited» when in sunlight.

As a result, researchers have focused on improving so - called thin - film cells, which minimize the use of silicon.

The crystals of silicon have to be perfect, because even small defects in the material can hurt its efficiency.

The closely - held firm has developed a technology that uses a string of balloons to concentrate and capture the sun's energy without occupying valuable real estate or using large amounts of silicon.

Next, a series of silicon chip layers track the path of the particle pairs to pinpoint the source of the rays.

I see this as something for the young entrepreneurs of silicon valley because really rich people want more human interaction.

This gives the electron enough energy to escape the grasp of its silicon atom and slip into an electrical circuit to do work.

The model's first - generation design will consist of a circuit board with 16 chips, each containing a 256 - by - 256 array of silicon neurons.

The current reader consists of a silicon chip patterned with 1.2 million sensors.

The team also compared the numbers for different types of silicon solar panels.

The combination gives much lower cost of equivalent energy (only ~ 10 - 20 % that of silicon technology).

The price of silicon is a major driver in the cost of solar panels.

Production of silicon solar panels can be accomplished using power from solar panels; this would be the solar breeder facility approach.

The next day pop it out of the silicon mold or remove it from the square dish using the wax paper sides to lift it out.

There are a lot of silicon solar panels out there, and a lot of commercial manufacturing plants already set up to deal with silicon.

And for reasons that are not clear, positively charged bolts struck less frequently when the levels of silicon dioxide and other aerosols in the air were high.

In these chemical models, the area of the internal surface is more important than the dimensions and shape of the silicon skeleton.

The loaf is ready when it retains its shape when you pull the sides of the silicon loaf tin away from it.

That eliminates the process of silicon companies having to test software updates in the first place, resulting in faster updates for end - users.

It detects X-rays using the same kind of silicon chip, called a charge - coupled device, that is in every digital camera.

He also added that more work was needed to confirm the presence of silicon, and that their results did not rule out the presence of other elements.

One approach to overcoming this cost factor is to concentrate light from the sun using mirrors or lenses, thereby reducing the total area of silicon needed to produce a given amount of electricity.

It is the first screen to be made from a microchip not of silicon but of cheap plastic.

We invited five experts to discuss the future of silicon.

It was 1956, the beginning of the silicon age.

By growing stem cells on a bed of silicon needles, researchers may have found a way to give the cells a push in the right direction.

Researchers did not know how this coating improved the performance of the silicon nanoparticles.

The technology has been particularly useful in the field of sensors, where the effect of pressure, acceleration or chemicals on tiny beams of silicon is measured by silicon chips attached to them.

Good sources of silicon are water, grains and vegetables [1].

Do you have any info as to the true safety of silicon?

Look at that little package of silicon gel that's inside your new pair of sneakers.

His concept was a paper feeder employing tiny fingers of silicon.

Use a foundation and concealer with a touch of silicon in them.

It should have referred to molecules of silicon dioxide.

Large ones consisting of hundreds of silicon chips are inherently liable to fail unless steps are taken.

Another new research topic involves the so - called light - induced degradation of silicon solar cells.

Once the algorithm has calculated the proper shape for the task, engineers can use standard industrial processes to transfer that pattern onto a slice of silicon.

«The death of silicon was announced many, many times before,» he says.

In today's chips, a stretch of silicon connects the source to the drain.

His work also focused on radiation monitoring and protection of silicon - based particle detectors.

The overwhelming majority of the silicon has already been incorporated into dust grains.