Hoffmann and Schulze 1 have recently determined the melting point of high-purity silicon (99.89 per cent) and of commercial silicon (98 per cent), and give the values 1,411° ± 2° C. and 1,409° ± 2° C.

A team of researchers from University of California and the University of Kassel in Germany has developed a way to halt the ultra-fast melting of silicon using well-timed lasers. This new technique ...

A team of physicists has discovered a method to temporarily halt the ultrafast melting of silicon using a carefully timed sequence of laser pulses. This finding opens new possibilities for controlling ...

Aluminum and magnesium are among the “many” metals that melt at lower temperatures under extremely high pressure. The results came from a quantum computer simulation, but model real materials ...

A longstanding problem in physics has finally been cracked by Professor Kostya Trachenko of Queen Mary University of London's School of Physical and Chemical Sciences. His research, published in the ...

Silicon is the understated hero of the modern world, found in everything from CPUs and medical implants to precious stones, window glass, and bakeware. But what makes silicon so special? Join us for ...