SIERRA ARMY DEPOT, Calif. – Employees of Sierra Army Depot’s AJ1-SSA Disposal Branch were recently honored for their exceptional work in processing and disposing of more than 2,000 legacy radiation ...

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 ...

The Trump administration wants to use DARPA's Open Price Exploration for National Security (OPEN), an AI tool launched in 2023, to calculate what supplies of strategically important rare earths should ...

(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 ...

Researchers from FOM, the University of Amsterdam, the Delft University of Technology and the University of the Algarve have discovered that when light hits germanium nanocrystals, the crystals ...

Researchers at MIT have demonstrated the first laser that uses the element germanium. The laser, which operates at room temperature, could prove to be an important step toward computer chips that move ...

Blue Moon Metals (TSXV: MOON) (NASDAQ: BMM) has acquired a former gallium-germanium mine in Utah from a subsidiary of Teck ...

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 ...

Good news for the computer industry: a team of researchers has managed to make germanium suitable for lasers. This could enable microprocessor components to communicate using light in future, which ...

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

Swiss scientists have created the first semiconductor laser consisting solely of elements of main group IV (the carbon group) on the periodic table. Simply, this means that the new device is directly ...

Sometimes, a technique or technology that initiates a radical or dramatic advance is soon itself overtaken by a variation or improvement on that initial innovation, with an excellent example being ...