The Coherent EOM is the only germanium-free ultra-fast switching solution on the market capable of producing pulses shorter ...

Bozeman, Montana-based Lattice Materials said that it will use an $18.5 million Pentagon award last month under the Defense Production Act to produce ...

Chicago, Aug. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global germanium market was valued at 280.56 million in 2024 and is expected to reach US$ 427.84 million by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 4.8% during the ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Germanium was the basic material of first-generation transistors in the late 1940s and early 1950s before it was replaced by silicon (the first silicon transistor was produced by ...

Lattice Materials, a Montana-based manufacturer specializing in custom-grown silicon and germanium crystals and part of The Partner Companies (TPC), has received an $18.5 million award from the U.S.

Researchers have presented an improved processing technique for germanium-based thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells resulting in significant reduction of cell cost, an essential step to develop a market ...

A laboratory at Purdue University provided a critical part of the world's first transistor in 1947 – the purified germanium semiconductor – and now researchers here are on the forefront of a new ...

Glass fibers do everything from connecting us to the internet to enabling keyhole surgery by delivering light through medical devices such as endoscopes. But as versatile as today's fiber optics are, ...

It consists of one-atom-thick sheets and it could revolutionize electronics ... but it’s not graphene. Chemists at Ohio State University, instead of creating graphene from carbon atoms, have used ...

AF114 germanium transistors and related ones like the AF115 through AF117 were quite popular during the 1960s, but they quickly developed a reputation for failure. This is due to what should have made ...