How to Use gallium arsenide in a Sentence

gallium arsenide

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Definition of gallium arsenidenext
  • To make it to that next level, the team used two lasers and the semiconductor material gallium arsenide.
    — Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Bob Willett of Nokia Bell Labs has probably come the closest in his attempts to corral electrons in gallium arsenide, where promising but subtle signs of braiding exist.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 9 May 2023
  • The laser is made of gallium arsenide, a semiconductor material, and the lens is constructed of glass; both are fragile and easily broken.
    — Alex Webb and Sam Kim, Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Luminar made the cost question harder by making its lidar’s receiver (the that acts like your eye’s retina) out of indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) instead of silicon.
    — Alex Davies, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Gallium nitride, for example, emits blue light, whereas gallium arsenide emits red.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2020
  • In gallium arsenide, Wu’s theoretical research showed, very few properties of the reemitted light have to be known for a mathematical reconstruction of Bloch wave functions.
    — Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, for instance, are testing liquid helium and gallium arsenide as detectors of lighter forms of dark matter.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2019
  • Both groups use Pfeiffer’s gallium arsenide crystals but apply different circuit-fabrication techniques.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2014
  • For these components, more exotic materials like indium phosphide, gallium arsenide, and germanium work better.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Luminar's lidar uses indium-gallium arsenide sensors to detect return flashes.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Apr. 2018

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