The Middle East conflict is set to weigh on the already “hugely tight” market for niche metals used in defence industries, as ...

The Trump administration wants to use DARPA's Open Price Exploration for National Security (OPEN), an AI tool launched in 2023, to calculate what supplies of strategically important rare earths should ...

Chicago, Aug. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global germanium market was valued at 280.56 million in 2024 and is expected to reach US$ 427.84 million by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 4.8% during the ...

Sierra Army Depot employees were recently honored for their exceptional work in processing and disposing of legacy radiation waste items.

Applying a high magnetic field simulates microgravity conditions that suppress melt convection in germanium single crystal ...

Researchers from FOM, the University of Amsterdam, the Delft University of Technology and the University of the Algarve have discovered that when light hits germanium nanocrystals, the crystals ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Germanium was the basic material of first-generation transistors in the late 1940s and early 1950s before it was replaced by silicon (the first silicon transistor was produced by ...

Researchers at MIT have demonstrated the first laser that uses the element germanium. The laser, which operates at room temperature, could prove to be an important step toward computer chips that move ...

It consists of one-atom-thick sheets and it could revolutionize electronics ... but it’s not graphene. Chemists at Ohio State University, instead of creating graphene from carbon atoms, have used ...

Swiss scientists have created the first semiconductor laser consisting solely of elements of main group IV (the carbon group) on the periodic table. Simply, this means that the new device is directly ...