Sentence examples for made of compound from inspiring English sources
Today's commercial lasers are made of compound semiconductors such as indium phosphide.
The last two functions are the bottle neck for microsystems, since they are made of compound semiconductors which have not been obeying the same manufacturing history curves as silicon.
Theoretical and experimental works have shown that 3-D arrays of semiconductor nanopillars – with well-defined diameter, length and pitch – excel at trapping light while using less than half the semiconductor material required for thin-film solar cells made of compound semiconductors, such as cadmium telluride, and about one-percent of the material used in solar cells made from bulk silicon.
Compound semiconductors are, for del Alamo, an attractive alternative because "all things being equal, they allow you to get more performance for the same physical dimensions and voltage". Essentially, he says, as the device shrinks, the performance loss of transistors made of compound semiconductors is less severe than those of silicon because there was so much more performance to begin with.
Now, for the most widely used type of quantum dots, made of compounds called metal chalcogenides, researchers from MIT may have found the key: The limiting factor seems to be off-kilter ratios of the two basic components that make up the dots.
No mention is made of the compound being burnt down.
"If not, it's made of plastic compound.
Caption: Chip with transistors and test structures made of the compound semiconductor indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs).
The crystals in this demonstration by Dr. Jack Feinberg, a professor of physics at the University of California at Los Angeles, are made of the compound barium titanate.
This device comprises a membrane made of metallic compound acting as the anode in front of a flat cold cathode emitter.
The team showed that a transistor made of a compound semiconductor called indium gallium arsenide could operate more than two times faster than a silicon transistor of the same size.
