Silicon Valley

Riordan M and Floddeson I 1997 The Moses of Silicon Valley Phys. Today December, p 42... 

BAN (2002) The Basel Action Network and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition exporting harm the high-tech trashing of Asia, www.ban.org... 

A few years ago, one of my respected colleagues at the Silicon Valley design center of one of the world s biggest power supply manufacturers explained the rather hair-splitting logic... 

The Basel Action Network and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition have released a report, Exporting Harm Techno Trash to Asia, that states that electronic waste is the most rapidly growing waste problem in the world. The US and other countries that use most of the world s electronic products, and thus generate most of the waste, have been exporting the electronic waste crisis to the developing... 

Gene Kleiner was one of the truly wise men of Silicon Valley, having co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor, as well as Kleiner Perkins, an incredibly successful venture capital firm. What Kleiner s First Law teaches is that biotech companies should raise capital whenever they can, assuming the deals do not have fatal flaws (as will be discussed below). I once... 

Hamel, Gary. 1999. Bringing Silicon Valley inside. Elarvard Business Review, 77(5) 70-84. 

In terms of the electronic age, which includes the invention of the radio, television, calculator, and computer, it has been claimed that the discovery of high Tc superconductors has resulted in a "third electronics revolution" preceded by the transistor (1947), and the vacuum tube (1904). It now appears that we have shifted from "silicon valley" to a "copper-oxide valley" with the new discoveries in the field of high Tc superconductivity. 

Well water, 1 liter (worst well in Silicon Valley) Trichloroefhylene, 2800 iJig 0.004 ... 

Lawrence H. Dubois, SRI International As an alumni of Bell Labs and a current resident of Silicon Valley, I can tell you that the SIA Roadmap is an incredibly powerful tool. It drives a number of different industries to focus on where they want to go and a number of different disciplines to develop new kinds of resists, etching tools, lasers, deposition chemistries, and the like. Having said that, the SIA Roadmap also stifles creativity. If you come up with an idea or a concept 5 years too early, nobody cares. It will sit on the shelf until it s time for it to be on the road map. There are clearly pluses and minuses to road maps. 

Effects on ions water samples Silicon Valley... 

Siegel, Ron, 62-63 Silicon Valley, 53 Sirius, R.U., 46-47,58 skeletal problems, 70 Smart Drugs Nutrients, 42 Smith, Billy, 30 Smith, Huston, 87 soul, 71... 

A report prepared by The Basel Action Network (BAN) and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) in 2002 (BAN and SVTC, 2002) introduced an insider story by a recycling operator in the United States (US). The stoiy indicates that around 80% of what comes through their doors have been exported offshore to Asia and 90% of that was to China. 

The most popular semiconductor material is silicon (hence Silicon Valley). Fig. 12.9a is a schematic representation of a pure Si crystal. Each Si atom has rout-valence electrons and bonds to four other atoms to form Lewis octets. The crysttil can become a conductor if some of the valence electrons are shaken loose. This produces both negative and positive charge carriers—electrons and l-uilcs. Much more important are extrinsic semiconductors in which the Si crystal is doped with impurity atoms, usually at concentrations of several parts per million (ppm). For example, Si can be doped with P (or As or Sb) atoms, which has five valence electrons. As shown in Fig. 12.9b, a P atom can replace a Si atom in the lattice. The fifth electron on the P is not needed for bonding and becomes available as a current carrier. Thus, Si doped with P is a n-type semiconductor. The Si can instead be doped with B (or Ga or Al). which has only three valence eleetrons. As shown in Fig. 12.9c, a B atom replacing a Si atom leaves an electron vacancy in one of its four bonds. Such positive holes can likewise become current carriers, making Si doped with B a p-type semi con duetor. 

Miller, M.W. Findings of toxin leakage in silicon valley hurt chip makers Reputation for safety. Wall Street Journal Aug 29, 1984. 

Oh, the stories that have been told around the glow of a monitor about Gates vs. Jobs. Even so, one of the easiest ways to get a bit of the flavor of the struggle is through a recent movie called "Pirates of the Silicon Valley," in which Anthony Michael Hall of "The Breakfast Club" plays Gates and Noah Wyle of "ER" fame plays Jobs. More info at tnt.turner.cotti/ttiovies/tntoriginaIs/pi rates. 

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