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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. 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.