Germanium and gallium are two metals that are of great importance for modern high technologies. Both are important raw materials for the semiconductor industry, for fiber optic cables and for ...

Prices for gallium are close to their highest since 2011 as China’s export restrictions crimp global supply and hurt buyers of the metal used in a swathe of high-tech applications. Beijing last year ...

China is restricting exports of two niche metals — germanium and gallium — that are key to manufacture electronics and semiconductors, as the tech battle with the U.S. and Europe heats up. Germanium ...

Two obscure yet crucial metals, gallium and germanium, are the latest pawns in the escalating US-China trade war. On Dec. 3, China announced an export ban on both metals to the US in a tit-for-tat ...

Platform positioned to challenge China’s near-total global production monopoly of refined gallium for use in defense and semiconductor markets Xerion awarded Phase I Small Business Innovation Research ...

In the summer of 2023, Vasileios Tsianos, the vice president of corporate development at Neo Performance Materials, started getting calls from government officials on both sides of the Atlantic.

If you’re reading this on a screen, it’s likely you’re literally staring at the future. Present in most LED screens, as well as the LED lights that now provide much indoor illumination, is the metal ...