The Curie temperature measurement found that CeFe10Zr0.8 boasts a Tc = 181 °C, which is higher than the Tc values of all known Ce Fe binary compounds, and 30 °C higher than that of Ce2Fe14B.
A heterojunction is a junction formed between two dissimilar semiconductors, such as the binary compound GaAs and the ternary compound AlxGa1 − xAs.
The suitable TCO materials are the SnO2, In2O3, and ZnO-based binary semiconductor compounds and the multicomponent oxides composed of combinations of these binary compounds[36].
As the applied deposition voltage was increased from −0.6 V to −0.7 V versus Ag/AgCl, a CuInSe2 thin film with a chalcopyrite structure came to be predominantly formed, in accordance with the chemical composition, while the formation of the binary compounds (CuO and CuxSe) which influence the degradation of the performance in the application of CIS-based solar cells, rapidly decreased.
Unlike the synthesis of binary compounds, the ternary and quaternary materials involve reactions between multiple precursors having different reactivities and, therefore, suffer from inherently poor control over NC nucleation and growth.
HgCdTe is a pseudobinary alloy between the binary compounds, HgTe and CdTe; it is called the "ultimate infrared red (IR) semiconductor.' The advantages of HgCdTe are described in the chapter.
On the basis of the binary compounds TiN and TiC, various strategies were developed to improve or adapt the hard coatings to a specific tribological problem.
Vanadium and silicon form several binary compounds; the most well characterized structures have the compositions V:Si = 3 1, 5 3, 6 5, 1 2.
The solubilities of Ag in the Sb Te binary compounds, γ and δ, at 400 °C are as high as 8.6 and 5.7 at.%, respectively.
Other known binary compounds include the halides (LiF, LiCl, LiBr, LiI), and the sulfide, the superoxide, carbide.
