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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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So engineers have been coming up with practical ways to integrate lasers made of compound semiconductors onto silicon wafers, and do it in a way that’s manufacturable and relatively cheap. Usually phonons slow things down, in part by interfering with excitons, bound pairs of electrons and positively charged holes.

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Stopping Infection Outbreaks with AI and Big Data

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So, they put a charge code in the electronic health record pretty quickly. I was surprised by the result, but when you think about it, whole-genome sequencing is relatively cheap. Our theme music is by Chad Crouch. And importantly, any procedure that was done to them.