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DIY Drones Take on Silicon Valley

Amateur drone makers are sending their do-it-yourself creations up into the skies of Silicon Valley. WSJ's Andy Jordan reports from San Francisco on the stunning footage they're capturing.




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Indian-American grocery store owner in Silicon Valley charged with price gouging




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Indian-American Grocery Store Owner in Silicon Valley Charged with Price Gouging

Rajvinder Singh, owner of the popular Apna Bazaar in California's Pleasanton, had allegedly increased the prices of grocery items during Covid-19.




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Reuters Newsmaker: Washington Comes to Silicon Valley

Reuters Breakingviews examines how Washington’s new paradigm on China is affecting Silicon Valley, from overseas investments to intellectual property protection to trade.




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AI superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the new world order / Kai-Fu Lee

Dewey Library - HC79.I55 L435 2018




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Silicon nanowires for photovoltaic applications / David Adam Parlevliet

Parlevliet, David Adam




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Crystalline silicon terrestrial photovoltaic (PV) modules : design qualification and type approval




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Physics and technology of amorphous-crystalline heterostructure silicon solar cells / Wilfried G.J.H.M. van Sark, Lars Korte, Francesco Roca (eds.)




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[ASAP] Discovery of a Silicon-Containing Pan-Genotype Hepatitis C Virus NS5A Inhibitor

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.0c00082




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Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Metallization and Interconnection for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells: conference date, 13-14 May 2019: location, Konstanz, Germany / editors, Loic Tous, Guy Beaucarne, Gunnar Schubert and Jaap Hoornstra (Retired)

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Silicon-germanium (SiGe) nanostructures: production, properties and applications in electronics / edited by Yasuhiro Shiraki and Noritaka Usami

Hayden Library - TA418.9.N35 S54 2011




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Synthesis, structures and photophysical properties of hexacoordinated organosilicon compounds with 2-(2-pyridyl)phenyl groups

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2020, 18,3239-3242
DOI: 10.1039/D0OB00484G, Communication
Shohei Furuta, Toshiaki Mori, Yusuke Yoshigoe, Kohei Sekine, Yoichiro Kuninobu
We synthesised novel air-, water-, heat-, acid-, and base-stable hexacoordinated organosilicon compounds, which contain two C,N-bidentate ligands and form two silafluorene equivalent moieties, with Lewis acid–base interactions.
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Teen Technorati - Teens Move into One House to Pursue Their Dreams in Silicon Valley as the 2014 Thiel Fellows

As the 2014 Thiel Fellows prepare to move to San Francisco for the summer, the reality of the fellowship starts to sink in. Having to drop out of school, dealing with parental judgment—is it all really worth it to pursue their ideas and projects in Silicon Valley?




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Teen Technorati - The Thiel Fellows Get an Inside Look at Silicon Valley on a Field Trip to the Google Campus

The Thiel fellows get a dose of Silicon Valley life as they visit Google’s collaborative workspace, The Garage. After a demo of Google Glass, the group gets hands-on with an innovation exercise to hone their creativity and team-building skills.




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Out of Office with Brent Rose - What $500 Can Get You on Magic (Silicon Valley’s Newest Texting-Based Delivery Service)

We gave tech writer Brent Rose $500 to stress-test Silicon Valley’s overnight sensation, Magic. From meatballs to medicinal cannabis to Mexican wrestling, see what unfolds when he pushes the new text message-based delivery service.




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Split Screen - Silicon Valley's Gender Gap

Peter and Kelli Rubin love TV, movies, and games but don’t always see eye to eye—and the return of Mike Judge's HBO satire is no exception.




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'Silicon Valley' Cast Explains What Real Startups Do (NSFW)

Mozido? Nutanix? We gave the Silicon Valley cast the names of real startups and asked them to guess what they do. This is NSFW, so put those headphones on.




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Silicon Valley Mourns Andy Grove, a Titan of Tech

Grove is routinely mentioned as part of the same pantheon that includes Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, and Steve Jobs. And with good reason.




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Everything You Missed at Silicon Valley Comic Con

For the first time ever Silicon Valley hosted its very own Comic Con. It didn't quite measure up to the San Diego incarnation that dominates entertainment headlines every year, but it shows promise.




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Silicon Valley Opens 1-3

Three opens from Silicon Valley. Courtesy HBO.




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How Trump's Immigration Crackdown Will Hurt Silicon Valley

Immigrants founded half of the billion dollar startups in the US. Now many worry that Trump's current travel ban and any future restrictions to work visas could hamper growth in Silicon Valley.




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Silicon Valley's Favorite Shoe Company Has Some New Kicks

Last year, the San Francisco startup Allbirds released a shoe it calls the Wool Runner. This eco-friendly, merino wool sneaker exploded in popularity in Bay Area. Now, Allbirds is unveiling its second product, the Wool Lounger.




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Women Engineers On the Rampant Sexism of Silicon Valley

Five female engineers discuss the sexism of the tech industry and why greater diversity and inclusion makes better products for everyone.




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Taking on Amazon, Google & Silicon Valley: EU Competition Chief Talks Tech with WIRED's Nicholas Thompson

WIRED Editor in Chief Nicholas Thompson discusses the regulation of tech companies and their products with European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager.




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Metal assisted chemical etching of silicon in the gas phase: a nanofabrication platform for X-ray optics

Nanoscale Horiz., 2020, 5,869-879
DOI: 10.1039/C9NH00709A, Communication
Open Access
Lucia Romano, Matias Kagias, Joan Vila-Comamala, Konstantins Jefimovs, Li-Ting Tseng, Vitaliy A. Guzenko, Marco Stampanoni
Gas-MacEtch of Si with a Pt catalyst allows vertical etching nanostructures with an extreme aspect ratio up to 10 000 : 1.
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Multiring-induced multicolour emission: hyperbranched polysiloxane with silicon bridge for data encryption

Mater. Chem. Front., 2020, 4,1375-1382
DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00075B, Research Article
Yuanbo Feng, Hongxia Yan, Fan Ding, Tian Bai, Yufeng Nie, Yan Zhao, Weixu Feng, Ben Zhong Tang
The presented work shows an impressive multicolour luminescence hyperbranched polysiloxane attributed to the multiring through-space conjugation named “multiring induced multicolor emission” (MIE), as well as its application in data encryption.
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High performance method for the accurate and precise determination of silicon isotopic compositions in bulk silicate rock samples using laser ablation MC-ICP-MS

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0JA00036A, Paper
Chenxi Zhang, He Zhao, Wen Zhang, Tao Luo, Ming Li, Keqing Zong, Yongsheng Liu, Zhaochu Hu
MC-ICP-MS has become one of the most powerful analytical methods for Si isotopes in bulk liquid and solid samples in the past decade. Laser ablation provides direct sampling of solid...
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Valley of genius: the uncensored history of Silicon Valley, as told by the hackers, founders, and freaks who made it boom / Adam Fisher

Browsery HD9696.2.U63 C3542 2018




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The psychology of Silicon Valley: ethical threats and emotional unintelligence in the tech industry / Katy Cook

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Ghost work: how to stop Silicon Valley from building a new global underclass / Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri

Dewey Library - HD6331.G826 2019




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[ASAP] Controlling Microarray Feature Spreading and Response Stability on Porous Silicon Platforms by Using Alkene-Terminal Ionic Liquids and UV Hydrosilylation

Langmuir
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00106




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Podcast: Battling it out in the Bronze Age, letting go of orcas, and evolving silicon-based life

Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on SeaWorld’s plans for killer whales, the first steps toward silicon-based life, and the ripple effect of old dads on multiple generations.   Andrew Curry joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a grisly find in Northern Germany that suggests Bronze Age northern Europe was more organized and more violent than thought.   [Image: ANDESAMT FÜR KULTUR UND DENKMALPFLEGE MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN/LANDESARCHÄOLOGIE/S. SUHR ]




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Constitutive modelling and failure prediction for silicone adhesives in façade design Michael Drass

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Turning silicon into gold: the strategies, failures, and evolution of the tech industry / Griffin Kao, Jessica Hong, Michael Perusse, Weizhen Sheng

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Uniform conductivity in stretchable silicones via multiphase inclusions

Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00383B, Paper
R. Adam Bilodeau, Amir Mohammadi Nasab, Dylan S. Shah, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio
A thin, stretchable (200% linear strain), multiphase (solid–liquid) silicone composite with uniform electrical conductivity, for Joule heating and high-deformation sensing.
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[ASAP] Colloidal Quantum-Dots/Graphene/Silicon Dual-Channel Detection of Visible Light and Short-Wave Infrared

ACS Photonics
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00247




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[ASAP] Enhanced Nonlinear Light Generation in Oligomers of Silicon Nanoparticles under Vector Beam Illumination

Nano Letters
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00393




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[ASAP] Silicon Forms a Rich Diversity of Aliphatic Polyol Complexes in Aqueous Solution

Journal of the American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b10701




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Correction: Role of polysilicon in poly-Si/SiOx passivating contacts for high-efficiency silicon solar cells

RSC Adv., 2020, 10,17571-17571
DOI: 10.1039/D0RA90049D, Correction
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
HyunJung Park, Soohyun Bae, Se Jin Park, Ji Yeon Hyun, Chang Hyun Lee, Dongjin Choi, Dongkyun Kang, Hyebin Han, Yoonmook Kang, Hae-Seok Lee, Donghwan Kim
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Hollow-structure engineering of a silicon–carbon anode for ultra-stable lithium-ion batteries

Dalton Trans., 2020, 49,5669-5676
DOI: 10.1039/D0DT00566E, Paper
Hongbin Liu, Yun Chen, Bo Jiang, Yue Zhao, Xiaolin Guo, Tingli Ma
Hollow silicon nanotubes were successfully synthesized in situ on a carbon substrate, which effectively accommodate the volume expansion of silicon and exhibit ultra-stable performance as the anode of lithium-ion batteries.
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Rhenium and technetium-complexed silicon rhodamines as near-infrared imaging probes for bimodal SPECT- and optical imaging

Dalton Trans., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0DT01084G, Communication
Thines Kanagasundaram, Carsten Sven Kramer, Eszter Boros, Klaus Kopka
Radiolabelled fluorescent dyes are decisive for bimodal imaging and currently in demand for scintigraphic and optical imaging. This powerful method allows the combination of nuclear imaging (e.g. SPECT-imaging) and optical...
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Silicon-carbonyl complex is stable at room temperature

Electron-rich compound reacts like a transition metal




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Gas phase synthesis of amorphous silicon nitride nanoparticles for high-energy LIBs

Energy Environ. Sci., 2020, 13,1212-1221
DOI: 10.1039/C9EE03857D, Communication
Sujong Chae, Seungkyu Park, Kihong Ahn, Gyutae Nam, Taeyong Lee, Jaekyung Sung, Namhyung Kim, Jaephil Cho
We introduce a highly homogenous phase design of Si with N by scalable gas phase synthesis using a specially customized vertical furnace, which tackles the intrinsic challenges of Si anodes.
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Silicon in plants : advances and future prospects / edited by Durgesh Kumar Tripathi, Vijay Pratap Singh, Parvaiz Ahmad, Devendra Kumar Chauhan, Sheo Mohan Prasad




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[ASAP] Thermally Induced Dehydrogenative Coupling of Organosilanes and H-Terminated Silicon Quantum Dots onto Germanane Surfaces

Chemistry of Materials
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c00482




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Catalytic oxidation of methane using single crystal silicon carbide




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Design and development of a silicon carbide chemical vapor deposition reactor




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Synthesis of nanostructures in single crystal silicon carbide by electron beam lithography




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Detection of residual stress in multi-crystalline silicon wafers using swept-sne frequency response data




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Implant annealing of al dopants in silicon carbide using silane overpressure