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Melted Silicon for Cheaper Electronics PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 06 August 2010
Electronics manufacturers are charging a premium price for silicon that has very high purity, as clearly, these components are required for better conductivity. For example, existing solar cells are using high grade silicon purity for its construction, whereby such high grade silicon is very expensive indeed – which explains why solar cells are expensive too.

Nevertheless, it seems that a group of MIT scientists have yet again broken the code, whereby they have found a way to melt silicon and ultimately separate the impurity inside the material. Basically, the researches mixed foreign metals inside the silicon, which allows the silicon to be melted at only 900 degrees.

Of course, if this particular application is adopted by the electronics manufacturing industry, we’ll be seeing cheaper silicon products available in the market pretty soon, don’t you think so?

Melted Silicon for Cheaper Electronics

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