It has been over 30 years since the first focused ion beam was used to make a TEM specimen. FEI, a company that is now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, has been an essential part of helping take ion ...

China is restricting exports of two niche metals — germanium and gallium — that are key to manufacture electronics and semiconductors, as the tech battle with the U.S. and Europe heats up. Germanium ...

A short, spoken-word summary from CSIS’s Matthew Funaiole on his report with Brian Hart and Aidan Powers-Riggs, De-risking Gallium Supply Chains, and their digital report, Mineral Monopoly: China’s ...

French scientists have studied the fabrication of silicon heterojunction cells with p-type wafers. With the adoption of gallium doping, the p-type products could come close to matching the performance ...

Gallium, a metal that melts in the hand, has just surprised scientists. At the atomic level, gallium exhibits peculiarities. In its solid state, its atoms form pairs with covalent bonds, typical ...