As semi conductors

More recently there has been some interest in producing molybdenum disulphide by electrochemical deposition. Much of this work has been aimed at producing large crystals for use as semi-conductors, but Ponomarev et al reported the production of highly-textured films with basal plane orientation by cathodic electrochemical deposition from tetrathiomolybdate solutions, followed by annealing at 550°C in argon. 

Metal oxides usually consist of bulk oxides. As semi-conductors, metal oxides catalyze the same kind of reactions, as metals but are used in processes requiring higher temperatures. Often a mixture of various oxides is used to increase the catalytic activity. 

Hi-purity High purity applications such as semi-conductor production ECTFE Ethylene chlorotrifluoroethylene ... 

Some substances, for example silicon and germanium, conduct electricity very slightly and are known as semi-conductors (Chapter 24 on the accompanying website). Conductors include metals and graphite (Chapter 4), aqueous solutions (Figure 9.44) of acids and alkalis (Chapter 8), and ionic compounds when they are dissolved in water or molten. 

Zinc—bromine storage batteries (qv) are under development as load-leveling devices in electric utilities (64). Photovoltaic batteries have been made of selenium or boron doped with bromine. Graphite fibers and certain polymers can be made electrically conductive by being doped with bromine. Bromine is used in quartz—haUde light bulbs. Bromine is used to etch aluminum, copper, and semi-conductors. Bromine and its salts are known to recover gold and other precious metals from their ores. Bromine can be used to desulfurize fine coal (see Coal conversion processes). Table 5 shows estimates of the primary uses of bromine. 

The structure of the isomeric benzo-l,2,3-thiadiazole 11.30 is unknown, but the 1 1 adduct with AsFs (11.31) has been structurally characterized. The AsFs molecule is coordinated to the carbon-bonded nitrogen atom. Cycloocteno-l,2,3-selenadiazole is an effective source of selenium for the production of semi-conductors such as cadmium selenide." ... 

The catalytic activity of doped nickel oxide on the solid state decomposition of CsN3 decreased [714] in the sequence NiO(l% Li) > NiO > NiO(l% Cr) > uncatalyzed reaction. While these results are in qualitative accordance with the assumption that the additive provided electron traps, further observations, showing that ZnO (an rc-type semi-conductor) inhibited the reaction and that CdO (also an rc-type semi-conductor) catalyzed the reaction, were not consistent with this explanation. It was noted, however, that both NiO and CdO could be reduced by the product caesium metal, whereas ZnO is not, and that the reaction with NiO yielded caesium oxide, which is identified as the active catalyst. Detailed kinetic data for these rate processes are not available but the pattern of behaviour described clearly demonstrates that the interface reactions were more complicated than had been anticipated. 

The reciprocal lattice is useful in defining some of the electronic properties of solids. That is, when we have a semi-conductor (or even a conductor like a metal), we find that the electrons are confined in a band, defined by the reciprocal lattice. This has important effects upon the conductivity of any solid and is known as the "band theory" of solids. It turns out that the reciprocal lattice is also the site of the Brillouin zones, i.e.- the "allowed" electron energy bands in the solid. How this originates is explciined as follows. 

Point defects were mentioned in a prior chapter. We now need to determine how they aiffect the structure auid chemical reactivity of the solid state. We will begin by identifying the various defects which can arise in solids and later will show how they can be manipulated to obtain desirable properties not found in naturally formed solids. Since we have already defined solids as either homogeneous and heterogeneous, let us look first at the homogeneous t5 e of solid. We will first restrict our discussion to solids which are stoichiometric, and later will examine solids which can be classified as "non-stoichiometric", or having an excess of one or another of one of the building blocks of the solid. These occur in semi-conductors as well as other types of electronically or optically active solids. 

In semiconductors such as silicon, each atom in the structural lattice has four outer electrons, each of which covalently pairs with an electron from one of the four neighboring atoms to form the interatomic bonds, i.e.- the "diamond" structure. Completely pure silicon thus has essentially no electrons available at room temperature for electron conduction, making it a very poor conductor. However, the key is getting the silicon pure enough. Originally, silicon was thought to be a natural semi-conductor until really pure silicon became available. 

Including water in mass metrics can be a somewhat contentious issue at times. Water by itself does not, in many instances, constitute a significant environmental impact. However, in the case of highly purified water there are generally significant life-cycle impacts related to the chemicals and equipment used to purify the water. This is especially true for such industries as the semi-conductor industry, pharmaceuticals and some... 

Bv employing a soluble cationic polymer as the solution electrolyte polymer films can be sterical ly blocked from reducing beyond the formal zero valent form. In the zero-valent form the polymer is an ohmic conductor both in solution and dry. A model has been proposed which describes the conductivity of the polymer and in part accounts for its ohmic nature and semi conductor-1 ike temperature dependence. 

The changes in catalytic activity and conductivity on the acceptor branch of the curve (Fig. 8a) are directly related in the case of an n-semi-conductor and inversely related in the case of a p-semiconductor. It is this correlation that has been found in many experimental works, as noted in Section III. A. 

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