Silicon doping involves incorporating impurities into a crystal that mess up its electron balance.

所谓硅掺杂就是将能破坏电荷平衡杂质混入晶体。

Yeah, and basically the bone was there. It gets saturated with water that has silicon in it.

是，基本上骨头就在那里。它被含有硅水浸透。

And subtractive techniques from the silicon industry can't do that very well.

而硅产业消减技术无法胜任此工作。

Silicon is particularly promising, but it swells as it absorbs ions, and that can rupture a battery.

硅前景极其光明，但它会在吸收离子中膨胀，这可能会损坏电池。

But that's not even an option for silicon.

但这甚至不是硅选择。

The atomic number of silicon is 14.

硅原子序数是14。

Spaceport Camden will become the Silicon marsh of the East Coast.

卡姆登航天港将成为硅沼泽。

So this is the electron configuration for silicon.

这就是硅电子构型。

So, where is he getting all this silicon necessary to make the sand?

那么，他要从哪弄到这些必要硅元素来制造沙子？

You can fit more than a billion transistors in a single square millimeter of silicon.

你可以在一平方毫米硅中放入超10亿个晶体管。

It consists of a silicon crystal sprinkled with phosphorus atoms.

这个小白矮星由布满磷原子硅晶体组成。

Phillip says that's the issue with graphene replacing silicon in electronics.

菲利普说，这就是石墨烯在电子产品中取代硅问题。

Even the production of silicon chips uses sand.

甚至硅芯片生产也使用沙子。

We are talking about this fuel atoms in each silicon transistor.

我们想做是每个硅晶体管中这种燃料原子。

And if I wanted to figure out the configuration of silicon, right there, what is it?

如果我想弄清楚硅配置，就在那里，它是什么？

Astronomers identified the silicon-rich rocky material by training the Hubble Space Telescope on the nearby Hyades star cluster.

天文家通培训哈勃望太空远镜观测附近毕宿星团来确认富含硅元素岩石物质。

Typically, silicon solar cells are between 16 and 18 percent efficient.

一般而言，硅太阳能电池效能在16%至18%之间。

That means the frequency of light absorbed is constrained by the physical properties of silicon itself.

这意味着被吸收光频率将受限于硅自身物理性质。

As in a solar cell, light shining on this generator energizes electrons in the silicon.

就像在太阳能电池中一样， 照射在该发电机上光为硅中电子提供能量。

Simply put, they consist of multiple photovoltaic cells that are usually made of silicon.

简而言之，它们由多个通常由硅制成光伏电池组成。