The Defense Department is increasing investment in North American germanium producers to bulwark military supply chains hit ...

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 ...

Au-Ge eutectic gains relevance in high-reliability packaging due to thermal stability, photonics expansion, fluxless ...

(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 ...

Good news for the computer industry: a team of researchers has managed to make germanium suitable for lasers. This could enable microprocessor components to communicate using light in future, which ...

This graphic depicts a new electronic device created at Purdue that uses germanium as the semiconductor instead of silicon. Germanium is one material being considered to replace silicon in future ...

China customs data showed on Wednesday exports of germanium and gallium slumped to zero in August. Imposed on grounds of national security, new export restrictions require exporters to seek a license ...

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 ...

A laboratory at Purdue University provided a critical part of the world's first transistor in 1947 -- the purified germanium semiconductor -- and now researchers there are on the forefront of a new ...

Sometimes, a technique or technology that initiates a radical or dramatic advance is soon itself overtaken by a variation or improvement on that initial innovation, with an excellent example being ...