Silicon is the archetypal semiconductor, and base material of the microelectronic age. But it turns out that, treated the right way, silicon the semiconductor can become silicon the superconductor.
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Cava, R. Super silicon. Nature 444, 427–428 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/444427a
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