Why silicon is the benchmark

✍ Scribed by Jim Chelikowsky

• Book ID: 104415561
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 110 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1369-7021
• DOI: 10.1016/s1369-7021(02)00664-8

✦ Synopsis

Silicon is the material of our time. We live in the age of silicon; it is all around us in terms of electronic gadgets and computers. It is often said that silicon is the quintessential electronic material as its use is so ubiquitous.