Bonneville
Introduction to the Photovoltaic Effect
Let a video light the way to a better understanding of solar energy. Scholars first learn vocabulary terms related to the photovoltaic effect, solar cells, and electricity. They then watch a video to learn why silicon is often used as a...
Environmental Chemistry
Environmental chemistry.com: Periodic Table Silicon
Very thorough site with just about everything you could ever need to know about silicon.
Florida-Spectrum Environmental Services
Florida Spectrum: Chemical Fact Sheet: Silicon
This site provides a fact sheet with information on the basic data and properties of Silicon. It also includes some of its uses.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Silicon
Information about the element, Silicon, atomic number 14. Covers physical properties, atomic properties, how abundant it is on the Earth, and details about health-related regulations. Also discusses sources of Silicon, and its many...
Web Elements
Web Elements Periodic Table: Silicon
Excellent site with a great deal of helpful information on silicon.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Silicon (Si)
Here you can find some great information about the 14th element in the periodic table, "silicon." Content focuses on silicon's electrons, where you can find silicon in nature and in the home, and how silicon combines with other elements.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: The Transistor
This site from the Nobel Foundation provides detailed information on how the transistor works. The site provides illustrations and animations to help clarify the concepts presented.
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: Superslim Silicene
Discusses research being done with silicene, which is silicon that is one atom thick. Silicene is compared to graphene, both of which have the potential for sparking future innovations in electronics.
Other
University of Delaware Physics Department: Lithography
University of Delaware Physics Department provides this indexing page for a slide show presentation.
Other
Univ. Of Delaware Physics: More Semiconductor Physics
The University of Delaware Physics Department provides this site from a site titled "Silicon, Circuits, and the Digital Revolution," here is a series of four pages which explain the details behind how semiconductors work. An introduction...
Other
The Third Millenium Online: The Carbon Family
The five elements of the Carbon family are briefly discussed here, with links to further information about each.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Chip Collection
The National Museum of American History's Chip Collection consists of individual donations of objects, images and documentation that traces the history of integrated circuits. Scroll down to explore the details of this unique research...
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Element List
Site provides the first 18 elements found in the Periodic Table. Click on an element to discover where it is found and what it's characteristics are.
Science Struck
Science Struck: The Versatile Uses of Metalloids
Learn about the seven metalloid elements of the periodic table, their properties, and their uses.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Metalloids in the Periodic Table
Discusses the history and organization of the periodic table, where the metalloids fit in, and their properties. Includes color-coded periodic table of elements.
Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry: Visual Elements: Silicon
Very short entry describing silicon.
Chemicool
Chemicool.com: Silicon
This site from Chemicool.com provides a very through set of tables summarizing many physical and chemical properties of silicon.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Chemistry for Kids: Elements: Silicon
Investigate the properties and characteristics of silicon. Students can study the element silicon and its chemistry including atomic weight, atom, uses, sources, name, and discovery.
Curated OER
[Bohr Model of Silicon]
A page about the element Silicon which is a member of the Carbon Family.