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Silicon Mobility (Guigu Shumo / ANX Semiconductor)

Silicon Mobility, also known as 硅谷数模 (Guigu Shumo) and formerly Analogix Semiconductor, is a Suzhou-based fabless semiconductor company designing display TCON and high-speed connectivity chips.

Silicon monoxide composite anode

A silicon monoxide composite anode is a lithium-ion battery negative electrode made of silicon monoxide (SiO) blended with graphite and carbon, storing more lithium than graphite.

Silicon MOS spin qubit

A silicon MOS spin qubit is a quantum bit formed by the spin of a single electron at a silicon/silicon dioxide interface, fabricated with standard CMOS foundry techniques.

Sep 19, 2026

Silicon Motion Technology (慧荣科技) is a fabless designer of NAND flash controller chips for solid-state drives and embedded storage, founded in 1995 in San Jose, California, and Nasdaq-listed since 2005.

Silicon nanowire anode

A silicon nanowire anode is a lithium-ion battery negative electrode made of silicon wires, offering about ten times graphite's capacity while managing silicon's large volume change during charging.

Silicon nitride

Silicon nitride (Si3N4), or trisilicon tetranitride, is a strong, heat- and wear-resistant synthetic non-oxide ceramic, first synthesized in 1859, used in bearings, cutting tools, engine parts, and implants.

Silicon nitride photonics

Silicon nitride photonics is an integrated-photonics technology that guides light in low-loss silicon nitride waveguides, known for chip-scale frequency combs, visible-light biosensing, and hybridly integrated narrow-linewidth lasers.

Silicon on insulator

Silicon on insulator (SOI) is a semiconductor wafer technology placing a thin silicon device layer on a buried oxide insulator, improving speed, power, and radiation tolerance.

Silicon oxynitride

Silicon oxynitride (SiON) is an amorphous material of silicon, oxygen, and nitrogen whose composition and refractive index are tunable between silicon dioxide and silicon nitride, making it useful for gate dielectrics and on-chip waveguides.

Silicon photoanodes

Silicon photoanodes are n-type silicon photoelectrodes that use sunlight to oxidize water in photoelectrochemical water splitting. Bare silicon corrodes rapidly, so practical devices rely on protective layers such as TiO2.

Silicon photomultiplier

The silicon photomultiplier (SiPM), also called a multi-pixel photon counter (MPPC), is a solid-state photodetector that senses single photons, used in PET scanners, LIDAR, and astrophysics.

Silicon photonic modulator

A silicon photonic modulator is a chip-scale device that uses an electrical signal to encode data onto light in a silicon waveguide, mainly through free-carrier plasma dispersion.

Silicon photonic quantum key distribution

Silicon photonic quantum key distribution is the implementation of QKD, exchanging secret keys using quantum states of light, on silicon photonic chips compatible with CMOS microelectronics.

Silicon photonics

Silicon photonics is the technology of building photonic integrated circuits on silicon with CMOS fabs, widely used in data-center transceivers despite needing external III-V light sources.

Silicon photonics transceiver

A silicon photonics transceiver is an optical module that converts electrical signals to light and back, built on a silicon chip and used in data centers.

Silicon pixel detector

A silicon pixel detector is a particle detector made of a two-dimensional array of small silicon elements that records individual charged particles and locates decay vertices near the collision point.

Silicon quantum computing

Silicon quantum computing is an approach that encodes qubits in electron or nuclear spins confined in silicon, in quantum dots, donor atoms, or defects, leveraging CMOS chip fabrication.

Silicon quantum dot

A silicon quantum dot is a nanoscale silicon structure that confines electrons so their energy levels become discrete, used for light emission, photocatalysis, and hosting electron spin qubits.

Silicon quantum dot qubit

A silicon quantum dot qubit encodes quantum information in the spin of a single electron confined in a 100 nm silicon dot, pursued for long coherence times and CMOS-compatible manufacturing.

Silicon Ranch Corp

Silicon Ranch Corp is a Nashville-based solar energy company founded in 2011 by former Tennessee officials, operating more than 180 solar farms across the United States and Canada.

Silicon rhodamine

Silicon rhodamine fluorophores (SiR) are synthetic dyes whose silicon-for-oxygen substitution red-shifts rhodamines into the far-red and near-infrared, making them leading probes for live-cell super-resolution imaging.

Silicon spin qubit

A silicon spin qubit stores information in the spin of a single electron or nucleus confined in silicon, offering long coherence times and compatibility with standard CMOS chip manufacturing.

Silicon spin qubits in CMOS

Silicon spin qubits in CMOS are quantum bits stored in the spin of single electrons or holes in silicon quantum dots, built with standard semiconductor manufacturing processes.

Silicon strip detector

A silicon strip detector is a position-sensitive radiation detector whose parallel electrode strips on a silicon wafer measure charged-particle trajectories with micrometre precision, introduced at CERN in 1980.

Silicon T centers

The silicon T center is an atomic-scale defect in silicon whose spins store quantum information while it emits photons at 1326 nm in the telecom O-band.

Silicon tetrachloride

Silicon tetrachloride, also called tetrachlorosilane, is a colorless fuming liquid that reacts violently with water and is a key intermediate in producing fumed silica, optical fiber, and polysilicon.

Silicon tetrafluoride

Silicon tetrafluoride (SiF₄), also called tetrafluorosilane, is a colorless, nonflammable gas formed from silicon or silica reacting with fluorine or hydrofluoric acid, and a byproduct of phosphate fertilizer manufacture.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley: southern San Francisco Bay Area technology cluster centered on Santa Clara County, named by Don Hoefler in 1971. Grew from Stanford Research Park and Fairchild semiconductors into the world's leading hub for venture capital, software, and AI.

Silicon Valley (TV series)

Silicon Valley is HBO's 2014-2019 comedy series created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler, and Dave Krinsky, satirizing tech startups through programmer Richard Hendricks and Pied Piper; six seasons, 53 episodes, 41 Emmy nominations.