April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
5h 20m
English

On Si (pure), that’s doped then etched, our cyberworld depends,
There’s glass and concrete (Si-based!), the builder’s sandy friends.
In solar cells that catch those rays,
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GROUP 14 METALLOID
Silicon is a bluish-gray metalloid that underpins much of our Digital Age technology, despite being a rather poor electrical conductor. The reason is that computers and other electronic devices rely on—for their processing capability—a vast array ...