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Well they are not. Silicon is used in solar panels - an optoelectronic device.

What is true that the nature of the semiconductors made by reacting group 13 and group 15 (old school group III and group V) generically called the III/V semiconductors.

Examples are Gallium nitride, gallium phosphide, gallium arsenide, indium phosphide.

The key is the nature of the band gap and how this can be affected by doping. Gallium nitride is used in many applications, and is used with suitable doping in blu-ray disc reader laser diodes

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