Sentence examples for germanium from inspiring English sources

America's manufacturers are already dependent on foreigners for practically all their gallium, germanium, indium and scandium.

Zinc ore is good for indium, germanium and cadmium.

The coal bed around Xilinhot, the capital of Xilin Gol, boasts 38% of global reserves of germanium, a rare earth used in the making of circuitry for solar cells and wind turbines.

Mobile phones and computers use copper for their wiring and rely on cobalt, germanium, lithium, nickel, platinum and tantalum for other components.

Unlike traditional semiconductors, which are crystals of elements such as silicon and germanium, organic semiconductors are more complex versions of the chemicals from which plastics are made.

This was not so much because of the properties of silicon itself (germanium is in principle a better material for high-speed circuits) but because of the quality of the oxide of silicon.

The volatile and brilliant Shockley wanted to fit as many transistors as possible on a single wafer of germanium.

Back at Centralab, Kilby began working on germanium-based transistors for use in hearing aids.

Molybdenum-germanium alloy is a superconductor, so the two researchers hoped that nanotubes coated with it would also be superconductors.

By controlling the ratio of the chloride mix, the desired composition (and hence the desired refractive index) of the layers are obtained germanium increasing the refractive index and boron decreasing it.

Electric resistivities (at room temperature) material resistivity (ohm-metre) silver 1.6 × 10−8 copper 1.7 × 10−8 aluminum 2.7 × 10−8 carbon (graphite) 1.4 × 10−5 germanium* 4.7 × 10−1 silicon*    2 × 103 carbon (diamond)    5 × 1012 polyethylene    1 × 1017 fused quartz  >1 × 1019 *Values very sensitive to purity.