Under the new controls, special licences are needed to export gallium and germanium from the world's second largest economy. The materials are used to produce chips and have military applications.

But any rise in prices for gallium- and germanium-based materials due to a lack of supply may result in semiconductor companies looking at alternative materials, they added. A manager at a China ...

The concentrates, made in a new plant in the mining hub of Lubumbashi, will be shipped to Umicore in Belgium for further ...

A team from the University of California Santa Barbara used ultrafast electron microscopy to record photocarriers as they ...

The research group was formed by scientists from Canada's Université de Sherbrooke, Canadian energy project developer Saint-Augustin Canada Electric Inc., and Belgian Germanium materials provider ...

Korean chipmakers’ reliance on raw materials imported from China deepened last year, despite the escalating global supply ...

All other technical information in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Fireweed Metals’ VP Geology, Dr. Jack ...

Building transistor pillars Even though the SiGe layers are sacrificial material — not part of the finished device — their germanium concentration is an important process variable. As Nicolas Loubet ...

In this phase, LightPath completed qualification of new materials, which are now designed into several programs of record, and have completely replaced Germanium in those programs. The second ...

LightPath Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LPTH) ("LightPath," the "Company," or "we"), a leading global, vertically integrated provider of thermal imaging cores, custom optical assemblies, photonics and ...