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armada651 on April 11, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon...

It's kind of fitting that this was done in Eindhoven, a city that formed around the Philips light bulb factory.

It's a place that celebrates a history of making stuff glow.

nickdonnelly on April 11, 2020 [–]

I graduated from TU/e and in my experience their applied physics department, specifically nanomaterials like this are very well funded and attract a lot of international talent.

Eindhoven likes light! And....making bridges out of beer crates: https://www.ed.nl/default/tu-e-studenten-vestigen-nieuw-reco...

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