silicon

/sil-i-kuhn, -kon/US // ˈsɪl ɪ kən, -ˌkɒn //UK // (ˈsɪlɪkən) //

硅,硅片,硅料,硅材料

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Chemistry.
- : a nonmetallic element, having amorphous and crystalline forms, occurring in a combined state in minerals and rocks and constituting more than one fourth of the earth's crust: used in steelmaking, alloys, etc. Symbol: Si; atomic weight: 28.086; atomic number: 14; specific gravity: 2.4 at 20°C.

Examples

The company first introduced its own silicon with the M1 chip included in November refreshes of the low-end 13-inch MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini.
Storing all this data could quickly become impractical using conventional silicon technology, but DNA could hold the answer.
The next step is to put it all together… If we can combine all that, we’ll beat silicon.
In fact, the APCN material can boost the efficiency of a silicon solar cell by up to 24 percent, Empa’s scientists report.
The company is using a different hardware approach that replaces the specially designed, supercooled silicon chips favored by Google and IBM with laser-guided atoms in the machine’s guts.
A brilliant Silicon Valley entrepreneur may have found a way to get dark money out of politics without changing any laws.
Greer is a young, entrepreneurial, poker-loving Texan who ended up in Silicon Valley.
In Silicon Valley proper, that number increases to $108,603, marking a 7.2 percent year-over-year increase.
Normally Democratic Silicon Valley opened up its wallets to the Republicans this time out.
South of Silicon Valley, an entire town is being deformed, slowly, by plate tectonics.
You do the same with an ordinary piece of silicon for comparison and then seal both tubes with an oxygen-gas torch.
You break the quartz tubes one at a time and attach each of the two pieces of silicon to a card with self-sticking tape.
He was still wearing the blue blazer and khakis he wore on the days that he was consulting in Silicon Valley.
Silicon steel and manganese steel are sometimes classed as alloy steels.
These powders may contain borax or salt, and to prevent a hard, brittle weld, graphite or ferro-silicon may be added.

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Chemistry.
- : a nonmetallic element, having amorphous and crystalline forms, occurring in a combined state in minerals and rocks and constituting more than one fourth of the earth's crust: used in steelmaking, alloys, etc. Symbol: Si; atomic weight: 28.086; atomic number: 14; specific gravity: 2.4 at 20°C.

Examples

The company first introduced its own silicon with the M1 chip included in November refreshes of the low-end 13-inch MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini.

Storing all this data could quickly become impractical using conventional silicon technology, but DNA could hold the answer.

The next step is to put it all together… If we can combine all that, we’ll beat silicon.

In fact, the APCN material can boost the efficiency of a silicon solar cell by up to 24 percent, Empa’s scientists report.

The company is using a different hardware approach that replaces the specially designed, supercooled silicon chips favored by Google and IBM with laser-guided atoms in the machine’s guts.

A brilliant Silicon Valley entrepreneur may have found a way to get dark money out of politics without changing any laws.

Greer is a young, entrepreneurial, poker-loving Texan who ended up in Silicon Valley.

In Silicon Valley proper, that number increases to $108,603, marking a 7.2 percent year-over-year increase.

Normally Democratic Silicon Valley opened up its wallets to the Republicans this time out.

South of Silicon Valley, an entire town is being deformed, slowly, by plate tectonics.

You do the same with an ordinary piece of silicon for comparison and then seal both tubes with an oxygen-gas torch.

You break the quartz tubes one at a time and attach each of the two pieces of silicon to a card with self-sticking tape.

He was still wearing the blue blazer and khakis he wore on the days that he was consulting in Silicon Valley.

Silicon steel and manganese steel are sometimes classed as alloy steels.

These powders may contain borax or salt, and to prevent a hard, brittle weld, graphite or ferro-silicon may be added.