Alas, the silicon metal restrictions constitute a big problem for Dow Corning and other industrial consumers of silicon metal, but a bigger problem for the economy.
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The material is an organic photovoltaic semiconductor (called rr-P3HT) which, unlike the metal or silicon-based materials used until now for such biotechnological interfaces, is soft, light, flexible and highly biocompatible and naturally sensitive to visible light.
Instead of metal wires and silicon, these transistors are made of carbon tubes that are 70, 000 times smaller than a human hair.
Under U.S. antidumping law, Dow Corning and all other consumers of silicon metal were forbidden from participating formally in the proceedings that lead to the imposition of the duties.
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Although still invested in clean energy, Segrich has been holding more resource plays, such as recycling companies, like Horsehead Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: ZINC) and Globe Specialty Metals (GSM), which provides silicon metal to the Photovoltaic and Aluminum industries.
At the risk of being too simplistic to make silicon wafers, which is what you use to make computer chips and solar cells, you take a great big ingot of very pure silicon metal and then slice it very thinly.
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Separately from publicly traded OHL, his privately held Grupo Villar Mir is the largest independent producer of hydroelectric power in Spain, the world's leading producer of silicon metal, a major fertilizer producer, and a real estate developer with projects on the Mediterranean coast, in Florida and in Texas.
If you need more evidence that the antidumping status quo is weighted heavily against import-consuming U.S. industries, consider this gem: three of the nine mineral raw materials that are the subject of the U.S. case against China in the WTO (magnesium, silicon metal, and coke) are simultaneously subject to U.S antidumping restrictions.
When constructing computer circuits, most folks start with silicon and metal, but not the researchers at Stanford.
It was a teaspoon of water in a test tube, not a mass of silicon, metal and plastic.
The computer revolution can only go so far on silicon and metal.
For any given good, be it a metal lathe or a silicon-wafer saw, most potential buyers will not have access to a physical auction.
But the bottom line is that the future is more than just metal, plastic, and silicon.
The standard glass is silicon dioxide and yes, silicon itself is a metal.
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Though less efficient at converting sunlight into electricity than conventional crystalline photovoltaics, CIGS cells are essentially printed on glass or flexible metal and use a minimum amount of expensive silicon.
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It connects about 250 electronic entry points on the silicon sliver to the same number of metal pins that get stuffed into a circuit board.
Skyline Solar has come up with a solar system that incorporates large amounts of reflective metal that focus the sun on high-efficiency silicon solar cells.
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