Few of us, however, think about how silicon-based life forms interact with one another.
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Silicon-based memories do a far better job of storing data than brains ever could.
It is a leader in silicon-based technology and innovation, offering more than 7, 000 products and services.
In the past year, Dr Humphreys's team has improved its silicon-based ones from 15% to 45%.
Silicon-based life forms now make short work of tasks that once took us many man hours to accomplish.
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Our romance with computer technology, or as I call it, silicon-based life forms, began in 1947 with the transistor.
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Our battle for control over the behavior of silicon-based life forms begins with the battle to control their identities.
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Fortunately, silicon-based life forms can even help us do the hard work of managing the tools with which they communicate.
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SunPower manufactures and distributes silicon-based solar cells and also produces solar power products for installation on residential and commercial units.
Comprised of three chips, D-ILA projects an image on to a silicon-based crystal display by creating the image on the chips.
One the most well-known retinal implants in the world today is the Argus2 from Second Sight, which is a silicon-based prothesis.
Audaciously named the Personal Genome Machine (PGM), the silicon-based device is the smallest and cheapest DNA decoder ever to hit the market.
Rather than taking control of us, as the man-versus-machine plotline would have it, silicon-based life forms can actually help us better control them.
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But the competitive transportation advantage declined with the construction of better roads around the country, and then with the onset of the silicon-based economy.
We counted 8 silicon-based companies among our top 100 in 1987.
To be sure, increasingly capacious chemistry and materials are used to improve the capabilities of batteries such as switching from carbon-based anodes to silicon-based ones.
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Then AQT sells its cells to assemblers who can cheaply wire the cells into modules with the same equipment they already use to make silicon-based modules.
Intel last summer said it had developed a research prototype of a silicon-based transceiver with four data channels that each send data at 12.5 gigabits a second.
We invented silicon-based helpers to crunch our numbers and increase our productivity, and they have bound us with soft shackles of convenience and a sense of connectedness.
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SunPower is a manufacturer and distributor of silicon-based solar cells.
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So the company focused on low-cost, silicon-based storage systems.
As its latest Kickstarter update details, the units will need stronger tooling than the silicon-based molds of the dev units to ensure that "tens of thousands" of them can be successfully made.
While less efficient at converting sunlight into electricity than conventional silicon-based photovoltaic panels, the great promise was that CIGS cells could be produced cheaper and deposited on glass, flexible metal or other materials.
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Silicon-based solar cells have been optimised for sunlight.
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The material is an organic photovoltaic semiconductor (called rr-P3HT) which, unlike the metal or silicon-based materials used until now for such biotechnological interfaces, is soft, light, flexible and highly biocompatible and naturally sensitive to visible light.
Since quitting Toshiba in 1994, he has been working on what he expects will be an even more important invention: a "three-dimensional silicon-based semiconductor, " he says, which will increase the capacity of semiconductors by a factor of ten.
That is not great compared with the 20% and more achieved by a silicon-based solar cell, the 40% managed by a solar-thermal turbine, or even the 18-20% of one of the new generation of cheap and cheerful thin-film solar cells.
Rattner explained that the new architecture is based on more than a decade's worth of research to invent a family of silicon-based photonic devices, including lasers, modulators and detectors using low-cost silicon to fully integrate photonic devices of unprecedented speed and energy efficiency.
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Eventually, says Mr Burt, the ability of dye-based cells to produce useful quantities of power even in dim and diffuse light could see them used outside, perhaps on rooftops in cloudier parts of the world a market at present dominated by traditional, silicon-based cells, even though they are not well-suited to the purpose.
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At the laboratory of Aurora, a San Diego-based firm specializing in such mass screening, little needles squirt a billionth of a liter of a potential drug into 3, 456 millimeter-wide wells. (The squirters come from another silicon-based business: ink-jet printers.) In the wells are biologically interesting molecules, such as enzymes, or cells that may present targets to new medicines.
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