Anya Marina was born in the state of Michigan but raised in Silicon Valley in California.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

The ocean floor is basalt rock, a mixture of silicon and magnesium.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

And that sparse array of wires has exactly the same light absorption and electricity-collection properties as the conventional silicon wafer cell."

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

than formerly was recorded." Silicon Valley attorney Gary Reback represents the Open Book Alliance,whose members include Microsoft and Amazon.com.

VOA: standard.2009.12.31

The tiny silicon wires stick up from the base,or substrate, looking something like a microscopic hair brush.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

And because the key component of solar cells is an expensive, highly purified form of silicon, there's a real economic benefit to this design.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

Those are questions that don't have answers yet." Analysts say President Medvedev's idea of creating a Russian Silicon Valley is tied to his broader plan to modernize the country's economy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

The high point of President Medvedev's stay in the United States will be his visit to Silicon Valley - an area in northern California known for its high-tech companies, venture capitalists and forward-looking entrepreneurs.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Experts,such as Robert Legvold from Columbia University, say Mr.Medvedev is trying to generate interest in his plan to create a Russian Silicon Valley in the suburbs of Moscow known as the Skolkova Innovation Initiative.

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David Kramer,former senior State Department official in the George W.Bush administration, says the Russian president will be in northern California to try and form business partnerships and to learn how Silicon Valley got started.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

"You really need system-wide Skolkovas - Silicon Valley - otherwise it ends up just like under Catherine the Great when they imported a lot of German tradesmen and planted them in various settlements - but they were fairly self-contained.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

"So when Medvedev committed himself to the idea of creating a Silicon Valley, and there were a number of parts, different cities in Russia that vied for its location, it was decided to put it in this park.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18