• SiGe (/ˈsɪɡiː/ or /ˈsaɪdʒiː/), or silicongermanium, is an alloy with any molar ratio of silicon and germanium, i.e. with a molecular formula of the form...
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    Like silicon, germanium naturally reacts and forms complexes with oxygen in nature. Because it seldom appears in high concentration , germanium was found...
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  • detection physics is a device that uses a semiconductor (usually silicon or germanium) to measure the effect of incident charged particles or photons....
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    the Group IV semiconductors such as diamond, silicon, germanium, silicon carbide, and silicongermanium, the most common dopants are acceptors from Group...
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    electronic devices. Most transistors are made from very pure silicon, and some from germanium, but certain other semiconductor materials are sometimes used...
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  • with one another. Currently, most semiconductor diodes use doped silicon or germanium. Transistors (devices that enable current switching) also make use...
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  • Metalloid (section Germanium)
    the literature. The six commonly recognised metalloids are boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony and tellurium. Five elements are less frequently...
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    crystal growth used to obtain single crystals of semiconductors (e.g. silicon, germanium and gallium arsenide), metals (e.g. palladium, platinum, silver, gold)...
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  • semiconductors are silicon, germanium, gallium arsenide, and elements near the so-called "metalloid staircase" on the periodic table. After silicon, gallium arsenide...
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  • electrodes, which improves the capacity of the battery. Some designs (silicon, germanium and transition metal oxides), variations of the lithium-ion battery...
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    carbon group is a periodic table group consisting of carbon (C), silicon (Si), germanium (Ge), tin (Sn), lead (Pb), and flerovium (Fl). It lies within the...
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  • Germanium dioxide, also called germanium(IV) oxide, germania, and salt of germanium, is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula GeO2. It is the...
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    this structure, including α-tin, the semiconductors silicon and germanium, and silicongermanium alloys in any proportion. There are also crystals, such...
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    of silicon over a substrate of silicongermanium (SiGe). As the atoms in the silicon layer align with the atoms of the underlying silicon germanium layer...
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    father of Silicon Valley". Unlike many other researchers who used germanium as the semiconductor material, Shockley believed that silicon was the better...
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    Diode (redirect from Germanium diode)
    1874. Today, most diodes are made of silicon, but other semiconducting materials such as gallium arsenide and germanium are also used. The obsolete thermionic...
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    Silicon-germanium (SiGe) thermoelectrics have been used for converting heat into electrical power in spacecraft designed for deep-space NASA missions...
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    table: carbon is above it; and germanium, tin, lead, and flerovium are below it. It is relatively unreactive. Silicon is a significant element that is...
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    different lattice (phonon) properties of Si and Ge. As a result, Silicon-germanium alloys are currently the best thermoelectric materials around 1000 °C...
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    eka-boron. Eka-silicon was found in 1886 by German chemist Clemens Winkler, who named it germanium. The properties of gallium, scandium, and germanium matched...
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    proceeding to germanium, then silicon, the materials were systematically studied in the 1940s and 1950s. Today, monocrystalline silicon is the main substrate...
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  • hydrogen atoms and group 14 atoms (the elements of group 14 are carbon, silicon, germanium, tin, lead and flerovium). The tetrahydride series has the chemical...
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    known element of the same group in his table. For example, germanium was called eka-silicon until its discovery in 1886, and rhenium was called dvi-manganese...
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  • irradiation. A normal silicon wafer coated with a layer of germanium (Ge) dipped in dilute hydrofluoric acid strips the naturally forming germanium oxide groups...
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    Catenation (section Silicon)
    bonds between semi-metallic elements have been reported, including silicon, germanium, arsenic and bismuth. The ability of certain main group elements to...
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    tendency to exhibit thermal runaway. Since germanium p-n junctions have a lower forward bias than silicon, germanium transistors turn on at lower voltage....
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    spectroscopic techniques because silicon and carbon atoms have the same configuration of the outer electronic shells. Germanium, tin and lead are normally absent...
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  • interface of silicon and silicon-germanium alloy. ELTRAN is a technology developed by Canon which is based on porous silicon and water cut. Seed methods...
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    the electronic properties of a semiconductor material (primarily silicon, germanium, and gallium arsenide, as well as organic semiconductors) for its...
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    the semiconductor) have been integrated into silicon waveguides as well. More recently, silicon-germanium avalanche photodiodes capable of operating at...
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