This is the silicon chip—a little chip of silicon crystal.
这是硅芯片——一个硅晶体的小芯片。
Tomorrow's children will be even more in the thrall of the silicon chip.
以后的孩子们对电脑芯片的依赖甚至会更深。
The silicon production is absolutely non wasteful.
硅的生产是绝对不会亏本的！
The company pioneered the use of the silicon chip.
这家公司首先使用硅片。
Where does this psychodrama leave the Silicon Valley giant?
这出心理剧给这位硅谷巨头造成什么影响？
Both the silicon and the germanium were deposited at high temperatures.
硅和锗都需要在高温下层叠。
The Silicon Valley visits seemed like a stunt, but they were prophetic.
硅谷来访似乎像一个噱头，但其却是预见性的。
The electron orbits a phosphorus atom embedded in the silicon lattice, shown in silver.
电子绕图中银色的硅晶格中的磷原子的轨道。
The cells are expensive to produce because it takes a great deal of energy to purify the silicon.
因为纯化硅要消耗很多能量，所以太阳能电池的成本很高。
But it takes years for the companies that make the silicon chips to overhaul their strategies.
但是硅片制造公司耗费数年时间来检查其策略。
When photons with sufficient energy strike the silicon they create pairs of electrons and holes.
当光子以充足的能量轰击硅就产生了电子空穴对。
First Solar’s panels have an average efficiency rate of 11-12% as opposed to 14-15% for the silicon ones.
第一太阳能公司的太阳能电池板平均效率为11-12%，而使用晶体硅的太阳能电池板效率为14-15%。
Six years earlier, Robert Noyce, the founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, had patented the silicon chip.
六年前，Fairchild半导体公司的创始人robert Noyce申请了硅芯片专利。
First Solar's panels have an average efficiency rate of 11-12% as opposed to 14-15% for the silicon ones.
第一太阳能公司的太阳能电池板的平均转换率为11- 12%，而硅太阳能电池板能达到14 - 15%。
Timing is everything: if the treatment lasts too long, the silicon changes too much and blistering occurs.
时间是绝对因素：如果时间过长，硅的变化会过大，并产生气泡。
Then, shaking his head, he said something much more damning: “I can’t see it, ” the Silicon Valley marine said.
然后，摇头，而且说得更为要命：“我认为不可能，”这硅谷陆战队员说。
The Silicon Valley search giant is the largest but not the only ad network showing ads on placeholder Web pages.
这家硅谷搜索巨头是最大的但并不是唯一的在占位域名拥有者网页上显示广告的广告网络，Yahoo！
The silicon of which transistors are made is frequently doped with other elements, to affect its electrical properties.
构成晶体管的硅常常要和其他原子掺杂以改变其导电性能。
The Silicon Valley's virtuous cycle has created a global supply chain in which many cities now play a critical role.
硅谷的两性循环创造出一条全球供应链，并让很多的城市气到了决定性的作用。
He is also the founder of the StartupBus, the Silicon Beach community, and works at search engine startup Vast.com, Inc.
他也是StartupBus这一硅滩（Silicon Beach）社团的创始人，为搜索引擎始祖 Vast.com公司效力。
These, as their name suggests, propagate over the surface of the glass until they are intercepted by the silicon at its edges.
顾名思义，它会在玻璃板的表面扩散直至被边缘的硅截下。
The latest devices, though, are so small that doping their channels involves placing just a handful of dopant atoms among the silicon.
而最新的晶体管体积很小，掺杂沟道时只需在硅中置入少量掺杂原子。
An electric field created by adding impurities to the silicon splits the electron-hole pairs apart, which results in an electric current.
给分离的硅参入杂质电子区域就产生电子空穴对分离从而形成电流。
The experts said beer was a major source of dietary silicon – roughly half of the silicon in beer can be readily absorbed by the body.
专家称啤酒是膳食中硅元素的主要来源——人体大概能够吸收啤酒中硅元素含量的二分之一。
The silicon photonic chips could replace the electronic connections between a computer's key components, such as its processors and memory.
这种硅晶光学集成电路能够代替计算机关键模块之间，比如处理器和内存之间，的电子连接器。
"I believe that Florida can be the green technology hub of America, and clearly the equivalent of the Silicon Valley of green," he says.
他说：“我相信，佛罗里达可以成为美国绿色技术的中心，很明显，这相当于绿色的硅谷。”
Being a shy little skinny Asian kid growing up in the Silicon Valley with low self esteem, those guys made me believe in something bigger.
作为一个在硅谷长大的瘦小腼腆的亚洲孩子，有点自卑，这些家伙让我相信可以成就更大的事情。
Conventional transistors use a metal electrode, called the gate, to control the flow of electrons through a planar channel in the silicon substrate.
传统晶体管使用一个叫做“栅极”的金属电极，以控制电子在平面硅基片上的沟道中的流动。
Conventional transistors use a metal electrode, called the gate, to control the flow of electrons through a planar channel in the silicon substrate.
传统晶体管使用一个叫做“栅极”的金属电极，以控制电子在平面硅基片上的沟道中的流动。
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