Selenium Semi-conductors

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." ... 

Cycloocteno-l,2,3-selenadiazole is an effective source of selenium for the production of semi-conductors such as cadmium selenide.234... 

Basic physical properties of sulfur, selenium, and tellurium are indicated in Table 1.3. Downward the sulfur sub-group, the metallic character increases from sulfur to polonium, so that whereas there exist various non-metallic allotropic states of elementary sulfur, only one allotropic form of selenium is (semi)metallic, and the (semi)metallic form of tellurium is the most common for this element. Polonium is a typical metal. Physically, this trend is reflected in the electrical properties of the elements oxygen and sulfur are insulators, selenium and tellurium behave as semiconductors, and polonium is a typical metallic conductor. The temperature coefficient of resistivity for S, Se, and Te is negative, which is usually considered... 

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