Developments like the use of cheap silicon make the case for switching to LED lighting even more compelling.

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By switching from sapphire to silicon wafers, the wafer size jumps from two or four inches to eight inches.

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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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