Silicon carbide has two similar crystalline forms, which are both related to the diamond structure.

There are no cross-Peninsula freeway connections between State Routes 92 and 85 ( which is so far south that it technically lies in Silicon Valley and not on the Peninsula ).

Silicon and germanium are quite different in their ability to convert gamma rays to electron showers.

The second movement of the novel begins when the characters are offered jobs in Silicon Valley working on a project for Michael, who has by then left Redmond.

Silicon is almost always used, but various compound semiconductors are used for specialized applications.

* Silicon transistors are much more vulnerable than vacuum tubes to an electromagnetic pulse generated by a high-altitude nuclear explosion.

Some isotopically purified elements are used in smaller quantities for specialist applications, especially in the semiconductor industry, where purified Silicon is used to improve crystal structure and thermal conductivity.

Silicon atoms are in tetrahedral coordination with oxygen, as in almost all silicate minerals, but in melts atomic order is preserved only over short distances.

Silicon used in semiconductor device manufacturing is currently fabricated into boules that are large enough in diameter to allow the production of 300 mm ( 12 in.

Embedded VLIW products are available from several vendors, including the FR-V from Fujitsu, the BSP15 / 16 from Pixelworks, the ST231 from STMicroelectronics, the TriMedia from NXP, the CEVA-X DSP from CEVA, the Jazz DSP from Improv Systems, and Silicon Hive.

Companies that are current or former ARM licensees include Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Alcatel-Lucent, Apple Inc., AppliedMicro, Atmel, Broadcom, Cirrus Logic, CSR_plc, Digital Equipment Corporation, Ember, Energy Micro, Freescale, Intel ( through DEC ), LG, Marvell Technology Group, Microsemi, Microsoft, NEC, Nintendo, Nuvoton, Nvidia, Sony, NXP ( formerly Philips Semiconductor ), Oki, ON Semiconductor, Psion, Qualcomm, Renesas, Research In Motion, Samsung, Sharp, Silicon Labs, ST-Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Symbios Logic, Texas Instruments, VLSI Technology, Yamaha, Fuzhou Rockchip, and ZiiLABS.

Silicon, chloride, sodium, copper, zinc, and molybdenum are sometimes also included, but are in other cases considered micronutrients.

Proportional counters or various types of solid-state detectors ( PIN diode, Si ( Li ), Ge ( Li ), Silicon Drift Detector SDD ) are used.

Silicon antifuses are connections that are made by applying a voltage across a modified area of silicon inside the chip.

Musicians Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode and Recoil, Nick Midson ( formerly of Threshold ), actress Daniela Denby-Ashe, Ian Gillan of Deep Purple, Mick Jones of punk band The Clash, the highly influential Big Audio Dynamite and latterly Carbon / Silicon, Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols, Robert Smith of The Cure, Pete Doherty, of The Libertines and Babyshambles, Dave Kerr-Clemenson ( Edison Lighthouse / White Plains ) as well as Matador Records founder Gerard Cosloy, are all fans of the club.

By some estimates, the Silicon Valley area, of which all the aforementioned are a part, is one of the wealthiest places in the world.

As part of the Silicon Valley, high-tech companies such as Maxim Integrated Products, Juniper Networks, Fortinet, Palm, Inc., AMD, NetApp, Spansion, Yahoo !, AppliedMicro and Ariba are headquartered there.

Silicon carbide fibers, where the basic polymers are not hydrocarbons but polymers, where about 50 % of the carbon atoms are replaced by silicon atoms, so-called poly-carbo-silanes.

The Silicon Valley and Washington DC scenarios are on the disk but isn't used.

Silicon wafers are typically about 0. 2 – 0. 75 mm thick, and can be polished to great flatness for making integrated circuits, or textured for making solar cells.

Humans linked to machines are found in Pohl and Kornbluth's Wolfbane ( 1959 ) and Roger Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness ( 1968 ).

Creatures of statute ( also known as creatures of the state ) are legal entities, such as corporations, created by statute.

Notable films in this genre are: Dog Star Man ; Scorpio Rising ; Wavelength ; Chelsea Girls ; Blow Job ; Vinyl ; Flaming Creatures.

Creatures that are not two-legged and cannot fly ( for example, whales and spiders ) would all be represented by points outside both circles.

Craft beers are also becoming popular, from breweries such as Coopers and Little Creatures.

Creatures in an army are represented by unit stacks, each of which consists of a single type of creature, in any quantity.

Creatures that do not fit the classic bird or yamabushi image are sometimes called tengu.

The genetics in Creatures are somewhat different from human genetics ; they are haploid.

The Cubby Creatures are the musical arm of The Cubby, a San Francisco-based art collective practicing awareness of the Cubby, the collective's art-based philosophy of living.

She was actively involved in both film adaptations, her screenplays are published in the collected dramatic writings, The Curious Room, together with her radio scripts, a libretto for an opera of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders ( based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures ) and other works.

* The Creatures, a group of video game commentators who are popular on YouTube

Grendels are now vicious, unlike the original Creatures Grendels ; these Grendels enjoy hunting down, and then killing norns.

These Creatures are called Zoë ( or the Tetramorph ), and surround the throne of God in Heaven, along with twenty-four elders and seven spirits of God ( according to Revelation 4: 1-11 ).

Creatures as scornful of science as they are of mankind.

In the Chaotic Trading Card Game there are 5 different types of cards: Creatures, Battlegear, Attacks, Mugic, and Locations.

Creatures are the cards players control to do battle.

Killy distrusts Silicon Creatures on sight, and destroys them whenever possible ; whether they are or are not hostile towards him or his objectives does not bear any weight on his judgement.

Inside Toha Heavy Industries, where the Safeguard aren't allowed access, Ivy ( one of the Silicon Creatures ) states that ' the weapons of the Safeguard are disabled ', so the GBE is not permitted to work.

Creatures are not stunned if dropped in a Combat Pit.

There are magizoologists who work in the Ministry of Magic, particularly in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures.

Creatures such as the Beholder or the Gibbering beast are very corrupted by these realms.