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n. (context inorganic compound English) A binary compound of gallium and arsenic, GaAs, used as a semiconductor, especially in light-emitting diodes.
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Gallium arsenide (GaAs) is a compound of the elements gallium and arsenic. It is a III- V direct bandgap semiconductor with a zinc blende crystal structure.
Gallium arsenide is used in the manufacture of devices such as microwave frequency integrated circuits, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, infrared light-emitting diodes, laser diodes, solar cells and optical windows.
GaAs is often used as a substrate material for the epitaxial growth of other III-V semiconductors including: Indium gallium arsenide, aluminum gallium arsenide and others.
Usage examples of "gallium arsenide".
These resonant tunnelling computer chips are constructed not of silicone, not even of the newest hyperfast conductive alloys, indium phosphide and aluminium gallium arsenide.
Laser transistors composed of atomic layers not of indium phosphide and aluminium gallium arsenide but of a monocrystalline diamond film were all well and good for high electron mobility (in fact, he was astounded that the Americans actually had perfected them) but, the Scoundrel knew, under the right circumstances they actually could work to his advantage.
The secret would be to make the hundreds of thousands of chips that would constitute the soul of the new computer not out of conventional silicon but out of a radical new material: gallium arsenide.
That is the miniature gallium arsenide photon detector, acting as a retina, and the surrounding banded area—.
He admitted that Aorangi badly wanted silicon, but pointed out that the materials for gallium arsenide, or boron and nitrogen for doping diamond, could probably be obtained from Kainu’.
Like Finn's, about a quarter of its brain was now made of silicon or gallium arsenide.
She went over to the nest of minuscule optical fibres connected to advanced gallium arsenide computer chips on a circuit board the size of the end of her thumb.
Monolithic microwave integrated circuits fashioned from gallium arsenide sped through thousands of complex algorithms that separated their armored prey from the snowy background of the German field, homing in on the tanks.
It's a highly specialized supercomputer that uses gallium arsenide CPUs and vector processing to analyze sequencing results.
Its a highly specialized supercomputer that uses gallium arsenide CPUs and vector processing to analyze sequencing results.
The only silicon and gallium arsenide at this spot is in the ground.