single crystals of germanium—a metallic element—used to detect radiation and enable incredibly precise energy measurements. Radford currently leads a portion of the Large Enriched Germanium ...

Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A curiosity about tiny dots on a germanium wafer with metal films led to the discovery of intricate spiral patterns etched ...

Research into germanium for solar has re-emerged with several projects announced in the last two years. The cost of producing solar cells based on compounds of III-V element materials – named ...

The device is based on indium gallium phosphide (InGaP), indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) and germanium (Ge ... cells based on compounds of III-V element materials–named according to the ...