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Are there materials other than just silicon that are being used to make semiconductor or other solid state electronic devices?
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The other materials other than just silicon used to make semiconductors and other solid state electronic devices are germanium and gallium arsenide.
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When was the semiconductor built?
Semiconductors aren't built, they are chemicals. Maybe you are thinking of semiconductor electronic components. The first semiconductor discovered was galena (lead sulfide) which was first used in a practical electronic component in 1874. The next semiconductor discovered was copper oxide which was first used in a practical electronic component in 1924. After that many others were discovered including selenium, germanium, and silicon. It was not practical to build electronic components using silicon until 1958 when Fairchild perfected their silicon mesa process, then in 1959 their silicon planar process.
What are the uses of silicon oxide in a mobile phone?
As in all modern electronic devices, a microscopically thin layer of silicon dioxide is grown as an insulator and passivator over the silicon of integrated circuits and discrete transistors. This process was developed in 1959 by Fairchild Semiconductor for use in their Planar Process for making silicon transistors and immediately spread throughout the industry, permitting use of inexpensive plastic packaging for semiconductor devices for the first time. Silicon oxide polymers are also in the silicone rubber parts that seal the case and keyboard from moisture.
What is the most familiar semiconductor?
silicon and germanium
Is graphene better than silicon?
It is hard to answer to that question. Both materials have advantages and disadvantages. Silicon is semiconductor so you can turn it on and off and you can make numerous field effect transistors or effective solar cells. However, graphene is zero-band-gap semiconductor which is very conductive. It is not conventional semiconductor. People are still trying to introduce a band gap to graphene to yield true semiconducting graphene. Both materials are legends in the field. Each has advantage. Most likely Silicon will continue to dominate the conventional semiconductor industry and solar cells. However graphene (and graphene derivatives) will be integral part of high frequency devices, diodes, sensors, and some solar cells.
How createde Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation?
The Hemlock Semiconductor Group (Hemlock Semiconductor) is comprised of two joint ventures: Hemlock Semiconductor Corporation and Hemlock Semiconductor, L.L.C. The companies are joint ventures of Dow Corning Corporation, Shin-Etsu Handotai and Mitsubishi Material Corporation. Hemlock Semiconductor is a leading provider of polycrystalline silicon and other silicon-based products used in the manufacturing of semiconductor devices and solar cells and modules. Hemlock Semiconductor began its Michigan operations in 1961 and broke ground at its Tennessee location in 2009.
How has silicon transformed science?
Silicon is the basic building block of a semiconductor device. And it has transformed the science by its present electronic era. The electronic devices nowadays can do almost everything a human can do. The robots, the other automatic devices and etc are the best examples.
What semiconductor material is used to make transistors?
* silicon * germanium * gallium arsenide * etc.
What are silicon and germanium used for?
Both are used in making electronic semiconductor devices. They are used in some types of alloys. Silicon is used to make high temperature polymers for plastics, greases, oils, etc.
What is a silicon semiconductor used for electronic functions in an integrated circuit?
microchip
What are the examples of semiconductor devices?
lED, or light emitting diode, chips an others
When was the semiconductor built?
Semiconductors aren't built, they are chemicals. Maybe you are thinking of semiconductor electronic components. The first semiconductor discovered was galena (lead sulfide) which was first used in a practical electronic component in 1874. The next semiconductor discovered was copper oxide which was first used in a practical electronic component in 1924. After that many others were discovered including selenium, germanium, and silicon. It was not practical to build electronic components using silicon until 1958 when Fairchild perfected their silicon mesa process, then in 1959 their silicon planar process.
What are materials which are suitable for electronic devices?
there are several type of electronics devices and several type of material used for these devices but material which is used for device should able to full fill the requirement of that device. for instance rectifier diode - Silicon Photo Diode - Germanium High Frequency devices - GaAs, InGaAs, GaP etc. Every material has it's own configuration so conclusion is that any one semiconductor material can not used as universal material for all semiconductor devices.
Rice hulls as a potential semiconductor?
possible! Because rice hulls contain SiC (Silicon Carbide) and Si (Silicon) which are good semiconductor matrix for electronic related researches...greggymae
What are the uses of silicon oxide in a mobile phone?
As in all modern electronic devices, a microscopically thin layer of silicon dioxide is grown as an insulator and passivator over the silicon of integrated circuits and discrete transistors. This process was developed in 1959 by Fairchild Semiconductor for use in their Planar Process for making silicon transistors and immediately spread throughout the industry, permitting use of inexpensive plastic packaging for semiconductor devices for the first time. Silicon oxide polymers are also in the silicone rubber parts that seal the case and keyboard from moisture.
What are the semiconductor materials used in computers?
A material that is neither a good conductor of electricity (like copper) nor a good insulator (like rubber). The most common semiconductor materials are silicon and germanium. These materials are then doped to create an excess or lack of electrons. Computer chips, both for CPU and RAM (or memory), are composed of semiconductor materials. Semiconductors make it possible to miniaturize electronic components, such as transistors. Not only does miniaturization mean that the components take up less space, it also means that they are faster and require less energy.
What is the most familiar semiconductor?
silicon and germanium
Is ceramics a semiconductor?
Some ceramic materials show semiconducting properties. These are SiO2, GeO2, TiO2, etc. Nowadays recent developments in electronic world is the result of controlling the conducting materials. Silicon technology term comes from the usage of very pure SiO2 in electronic devices showing semi-conductive properties. Main cause for its usage is having much reserve than others. Controllable conducting by ceramic materials made electronic devices smaller, last longer than fabricated by transistors. For example, laptops, cellular phones are the results of developments in semi-conducting technology using ceramic materials.
