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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. The Practical Power of Fusing Photons Chad Hagen Silicon solar cells are relatively cheap and plentiful, but they miss out on a lot of energy in sunlight.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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Currently, that’s often done digitally, which places demands on a network’s time, energy, and memory capacity. Chad Hagen In December 2020, a fishy distress call from a boat off the coast of Maine opened up an investigation into its authenticity—an investigation that played into the resurgence of something called “voiceprinting.”

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