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List of Semiconductor Materials

peter_d_sherman 6y ago
Here's a smattering of interesting entries from this page: >"Diamond - Excellent thermal conductivity. Superior mechanical and optical properties. Extremely high nanomechanical resonator quality factor.[6]" Indium antimonide - Used in infrared detectors and thermal imaging sensors, high quantum efficiency, low stability, require cooling, used in military long-range thermal imager systems. AlInSb-InSb-AlInSb structure used as quantum well. Very high electron mobility, electron velocity and ballistic length. Transistors can operate below 0.5V and above 200 GHz. Terahertz frequencies may be achievable. Lanthanum calcium manganate - colossal magnetoresistance Lanthanum copper oxide - superconductive when doped with barium or strontium Nickel(II) oxide - antiferromagnetic Silicon-tin - Adjustable band gap. [34] Strontium titanate - Ferroelectric, piezoelectric. Used in varistors. Conductive when niobium-doped. Tin(II) sulfide - Tin sulfide (SnS) is a semiconductor with direct optical band gap of 1.3 eV and absorption coefficient above 104 cm−1 for photon energies above 1.3 eV. It is a p-type semiconductor whose electrical properties can be tailored by doping and structural modification and has emerged as one of the simple, non-toxic and affordable materials for thin films solar cells since a decade." Etc., etc... PDS: Also, any semiconductor material on the list capable of generating a laser -- should also be theoretically capable of receiving a laser too; that is, acting as a transducer/optical transistor/transciever -- for that laser beam as well (in other words, instead of communications via electricity down metal paths on a chip's surface, any chip made with this material should (and yes, I know, the science is a long way off!), should in the future be able to communicate with other parts of itself via laser/light beams...) But, this should (no doubt!) be a fun list to revisit from time to time -- I can't wait to see how it unfolds (when more entries and information is added) in the future!

Here's a smattering of interesting entries from this page: >"Diamond - Excellent thermal conductivity. Superior mechanical and optical properties. Extremely high nanomechanical resonator quality factor.[6]" Indium antimonide - Used in infrared detectors and thermal imaging sensors, high quantum efficiency, low stability, require cooling, used in military long-range thermal imager systems. AlInSb-InSb-AlInSb structure used as quantum well. Very high electron mobility, electron velocity and ballistic length. Transistors can operate below 0.5V and above 200 GHz. Terahertz frequencies may be achievable. Lanthanum calcium manganate - colossal magnetoresistance Lanthanum copper oxide - superconductive when doped with barium or strontium Nickel(II) oxide - antiferromagnetic Silicon-tin - Adjustable band gap. [34] Strontium titanate - Ferroelectric, piezoelectric. Used in varistors. Conductive when niobium-doped. Tin(II) sulfide - Tin sulfide (SnS) is a semiconductor with direct optical band gap of 1.3 eV and absorption coefficient above 104 cm−1 for photon energies above 1.3 eV. It is a p-type semiconductor whose electrical properties can be tailored by doping and structural modification and has emerged as one of the simple, non-toxic and affordable materials for thin films solar cells since a decade." Etc., etc... PDS: Also, any semiconductor material on the list capable of generating a laser -- should also be theoretically capable of receiving a laser too; that is, acting as a transducer/optical transistor/transciever -- for that laser beam as well (in other words, instead of communications via electricity down metal paths on a chip's surface, any chip made with this material should (and yes, I know, the science is a long way off!), should in the future be able to communicate with other parts of itself via laser/light beams...) But, this should (no doubt!) be a fun list to revisit from time to time -- I can't wait to see how it unfolds (when more entries and information is added) in the future!