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Gallium DD

posted on Jul 02, 2013 02:03PM

General Information

General Facts about Gallium Arsenide[1][2]

Gallium = rarer than gold
Arsenic = poisonous
5 cents per gram, $45,000 per ton.
Product highly efficient photovoltaic cells
Band gap = 1.43 eV
Density = 5.316 g/cm^3
10x cost of Si at 50 cents to $1.50 a gram. $900,000 per ton
Lower strength than Si
Relatively insensitive to heat
Resistant to radiation damage

GaAs crystallizes into a cubic zinc blend called a sphalerite with is similar to a diamond cubic structure.

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