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Gallium arsenide
Gallium arsenide
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Molecular formula Molar mass Appearance Odor Density Melting point Solubility in water Solubility Band gap Electron mobility
GaAs 144.645 g/mol Very dark red, vitreous crystals garlic-like when moistened 5.3176 g/cm3 1238C, 1511K, 2260F insoluble soluble in HCL insoluble in ethanol, methanol, acetone 1.424 eV (at 300 K) 8500 cm2/(Vs) (at 300 K)
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Thermal conductivity Refractive index (nD) 0.55 W/(cmK) (at 300 K) 3.8
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Structure Crystal structure Space group Lattice constant Coordination geometry Molecular shape Zinc blende T2d-F-43m a=565.35 pm Tetrahedral Linear Hazards MSDS GHS pictograms External MSDS
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Gallium arsenide (GaAs) is a compound of the elements gallium and arsenic. It is a III/V semiconductor, and is used in the manufacture of devices such as microwave frequency integrated circuits, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, infrared light-emitting diodes, laser diodes, solar cells and optical windows. GaAs is often used as a substrate material for the epitaxial growth of other III-V semiconductors including: InGaAs and GaInNAs.
Gallium arsenide
Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) of gallium and arsenic: 4 Ga + As 4 4 GaAs or 2 Ga + As 2 2 GaAs Oxidation of GaAs occurs in air and degrades performance of the semiconductor. The surface can be passivated by depositing a cubic gallium(II) sulfide layer using a tert-butyl gallium sulfide compound such as (t BuGaS) [11] 7.
Semi-insulating crystals
If a GaAs boule is grown with excess arsenic present, it gets certain defects, in particular arsenic antisite defects (an arsenic atom at a gallium atom site within the crystal lattice). The electronic properties of these defects (interacting with others) cause the center of the bandgap to be pinned to the Fermi level, so that this GaAs crystal has very low concentration of electrons and holes. This low carrier concentration is similar to an intrinsic (perfectly undoped) crystal, but much easier to achieve in practice. These crystals are called "semi-insulating", reflecting their high resistivity of 107-109 -cm (which is quite high for a semiconductor, but still much lower than a true insulator like glass).[12]
Gallium arsenide
Etching
Wet etching of GaAs industrially uses an oxidizing agent such as hydrogen peroxide or bromine water,[13] and the same strategy has been described in a patent relating to processing scrap components containing GaAs where the Ga3+ is complexed with a hydroxamic acid ("HA"), for example:[14] GaAs + H 2O 2 + "HA" "GaA" complex + H 3AsO 4+ 4 H 2O This reaction produces Arsenic acid.
Gallium arsenide
Silicon advantages
Silicon has three major advantages over GaAs for integrated circuit manufacture. First, silicon is abundant and cheap to process. Si is highly abundant in the Earth's crust, in the form of silicate minerals. The economy of scale available to the silicon industry has also reduced the adoption of GaAs. In addition, a Si crystal has an extremely stable structure mechanically and it can be grown to very large diameter boules and can be processed with very high yields. It is also a decent thermal conductor, thus enabling very dense packing of transistors that need to get rid of their heat of operation, all very desirable for design and manufacturing of very large ICs. Such good mechanical characteristics also makes it a suitable material for the rapidly developing field of nanoelectronics. The second major advantage of Si is the existence of a native oxide (silicon dioxide), which is used as an insulator in electronic devices. Silicon dioxide can easily be incorporated onto silicon circuits, and such layers are adherent to the underlying Si. GaAs does not have a native oxide and does not easily support a stable adherent insulating layer.
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The third, and perhaps most important, advantage of silicon is that it possesses a much higher hole mobility. [citation needed] This high mobility allows the fabrication of higher-speed P-channel field effect transistors, which are required for CMOS logic. Because they lack a fast CMOS structure, GaAs circuits must use logic styles which have much higher power consumption; this has made GaAs circuits less able to compete with silicon logic circuits. For manufacturing solar cells, silicon has relatively low absorptivity for the sunlight meaning about 100 micrometers of Si is needed to absorb most sunlight. Such a layer is relatively robust and easy to handle. In contrast, the absorptivity of GaAs is so high that a corresponding layer would be only a few micrometers thick and mechanically unstable.[16] Silicon is a pure element, avoiding the problems of stoichiometric imbalance and thermal unmixing of GaAs. Silicon has a nearly perfect lattice, impurity density is very low and allows to build very small structures (currently down to 25nm). GaAs in contrast has a very high impurity density,[citation needed] which makes it difficult to build integrated circuits with small structures, so the 500nm process is a common process for GaAs.
Other applications
Solar cells and detectors
Another important application of GaAs is for high efficiency solar cells. Gallium arsenide (GaAs) is also known as single-crystalline thin film and are high cost high efficiency solar cells. In 1970, the first GaAs heterostructure solar cells were created by the team led by Zhores Alferov in the USSR.[17][18][19] In the early 1980s, the efficiency of the best GaAs solar cells surpassed that of silicon solar cells, and in the 1990s GaAs solar cells took over from silicon as the cell type most commonly used for Photovoltaic arrays for satellite applications. Later, dual- and triple-junction solar cells based on GaAs with germanium and indium gallium phosphide layers were developed as the basis of a triple junction solar cell which held a record efficiency of over 32% and can operate also with light as concentrated as 2,000 suns. This kind of solar cell powers the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which are exploring Mars' surface. Also many solar cars utilize GaAs in solar arrays. Complex designs of AlxGa1-xAs-GaAs devices can be sensitive to infrared radiation (QWIP).
High-efficiency, triple-junction gallium arsenide solar cells covering the MidSTAR-1 satellite
Gallium arsenide GaAs diodes can be used for the detection of X-rays.[20]
Safety
The environment, health and safety aspects of gallium arsenide sources (such as trimethylgallium and arsine) and industrial hygiene monitoring studies of metalorganic precursors have been reported.[22] California lists gallium arsenide as a carcinogen.[23]
References
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Band structure of GaAs. The direct gap of GaAs results in efficient emission of infrared light at 1.424 eV (~870 nm).
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External links
Single-Crystalline Thin Film (http://www1.eere.energy.gov/solar/tf_single_crystalline.html) (EERE). Case Studies in Environmental Medicine: Arsenic Toxicity (http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HEC/CSEM/arsenic/) Physical properties of gallium arsenide (Ioffe Institute) (http://www.ioffe.ru/SVA/NSM/Semicond/GaAs/ index.html) Facts and figures on processing gallium arsenide (http://www.logitech.uk.com/gallium_arsenide.asp)
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