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Why you prefer silicon atom as compared to germanium atom?

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Why silicon prefer to germiniuam?

Four reasons. First, it is a LOT cheaper and easier to get silicon. Germanium is a trace element in rocks. You need to mine and process lots of rock to get any germanium. Silicon is also known as sand--very easy to find. Second, germanium is heat sensitive. It's harder to solder a germanium device in than a silicon one because the heat can mess up the germanium. Germanium devices pretty much have to be soldered in by hand because you have to heat sink them, whereas silicon devices can be soldered in a soldering machine. Third, germanium's hazardous and silicon is generally not. People eat off glass plates, which are made from silicon. They do NOT eat from germanium plates, if they could even afford them. And fourth, germanium has a variable voltage drop--the higher the voltage, the greater the drop. If you pump 5000 volts into a silicon diode, you're going to get 4999.3v out the other side.


Why you prefer silicon atom as comp conductor atom?

the silicon is the insulator


Why Silicon is used widely as a semiconducting material?

AnswerSilicon is abundant in nature as SiO2(sand).Getting the Si from SiO2 is comparatively easier than other semiconductors like Ge.And Silicon is a better conductor at room temperature.valence electron in germanium are in fourth shell whereas on silicon valence electron is in third shell.germanium valence electron are at higher energy level than silicon .hence germanium valence electron will need smaller amount of energy to escape form the atom due to this germanium more number of electron pair than silicon . hence leakage current is more.this property makes germanium more unstable at high temperature.


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We use chips of silicon in computers and mobile phones and many other devices because we can control the conductivity of silicon. We cannot control the conductivity of metal conductors -- they are always highly conductive. The really magical thing about silicon is that it can be doped such that a few regions (the "transistor channels") can be actively switched from conductive to insulating, millions of times per second. I wouldn't say I prefer one over the other, though -- all those devices invariably *also* have many metal conductors.


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