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Old November 25th 20, 06:38 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
Alfred Molon[_4_]
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Default New semiconductor material investigated

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On 25/11/2020 4:41 pm, -hh wrote:
On Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 4:42:16 PM UTC-5, geoff wrote:
Sounds promising.

https://tinyurl.com/yxt5j7l7

It will find a niche somewhere, but don?t expect it to show up in consumer
products for quite awhile. For example, GaAs and GaN have both been
around for over a decade and their applications are still quite spotty:
compared to classical silicone, the wafers are smaller & more expensive,
plus you can easily blow through a couple Million just to optimize one?s
manufacturing to get yields up.


GaAs LEDs have existed for nearly 60 years.


But Gallium is a quite rare element (especially if compared to
silicon). Probably also much more expensive.
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