Gallium analysis

Atomic absorption spectroscopy of VPD solutions (VPD-AAS) and instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) offer similar detection limits for metallic impurities with silicon substrates. The main advantage of TXRF, compared to VPD-AAS, is its multielement capability AAS is a sequential technique that requires a specific lamp to detect each element. Furthermore, the problem of blank values is of little importance with TXRF because no handling of the analytical solution is involved. On the other hand, adequately sensitive detection of sodium is possible only by using VPD-AAS. INAA is basically a bulk analysis technique, while TXRF is sensitive only to the surface. In addition, TXRF is fast, with an typical analysis time of 1000 s turn-around times for INAA are on the order of weeks. Gallium arsenide surfaces can be analyzed neither by AAS nor by INAA. 

Fluorimetry is generally used if there is no colorimetric method sufficiently sensitive or selective for the substance to be determined. In inorganic analysis the most frequent applications are for the determination of metal ions as fluorescent organic complexes. Many of the complexes of oxine fluoresce strongly aluminium, zinc, magnesium, and gallium are sometimes determined at low concentrations by this method. Aluminium forms fluorescent complexes with the dyestuff eriochrome blue black RC (pontachrome blue black R), whilst beryllium forms a fluorescent complex with quinizarin. 

Recendy, ID quantum dots of gallium selenide with average diameter 8-10 nm, connected in the form of chains of average length 50-60 nm, were synthesized on rro substrates by cathodic electrodeposition from acidic aqueous solutions of gallium(III) nitrate and selenious acid [186], The structural analysis from XRD patterns revealed the formation of Ga2Se3/GaSe composition. The films were found to be photoactive in aqueous sodium thiosulfate solution and showed p-type conductivity. 

Dining dissolution for analysis of 1 -9 g samples of gallium in cone, hydrochloric acid containing small portions of 30% hydrogen peroxide solution, cooling may be necessary to prevent development of explosively violent reactions at higher temperatures. 

Recently, polyethylene and Teflon mesh sample holders have been used. A drop of sample is placed on the mesh and spread to a relatively uniform thickness for analysis. These holders can often be rinsed and reused. A very convenient alternative to liquid sample holders is the technique called attenuated total reflection or ATR. The ATR cell is a crystal of gallium arsenide, GaAs and the infrared radiation enters one end of the trapezoidal crystal. With the angles adjusted to obtain total internal reflection, all of the IR radiation passes through the crystal and exits the other end as shown in Fig. 5.14. 

The deshielded 31P and 13C NMR chemical shifts observed for 41-43 ( 31P +130, 13C +76, /PC 85 Hz) are consistent with the presence of a P = C double bond and positive charge development at phosphorus these spectroscopic data are in fact very similar to those observed for the methylenephosphonium salt 40.59,6° This similarity is reinforced by the X-ray analysis of the gallium adduct 42 (Fig. 4) (i) The phosphorus and carbon atoms adopt a trigonal planar geometry, (ii) there is a twist angle between the two planes of 34.1°, and (iii) the phosphorus-carbon bond distance is rather short (1.61 A). 

Several other analytical procedures exist in which solvent extraction may be applied. Thus extraction has been used in a limited number of analyses with procedures such as (1) luminescence (fluorimetry), where, for example, the detection limit of rhodamine complexes of gallium or indium can be increased by extraction [28] (2) electron spin resonance using a spin-labelled extractant [29] and (3) mass spectrometry, where an organic extract of the analyte is evaporated onto pure AI2O3 before analysis [30]. 

The compound is used in spectroscopic analysis and in preparing gallium arsenide for making semiconductors. 

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