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inorganic semiconductor

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inorganic semiconductor

A semiconductor made from a non-carbon based material such as silicon, gallium or arsenide. Inorganic semiconductors are used in all logic and memory chips. Contrast with organic semiconductor.



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The quantum dots are particles of several nanometers (one nanometer = 10-9 m) in diameter, which are formed by inorganic semiconductor substances.
Charges move more slowly through plastic transistors than they do through transistors based on inorganic semiconductors such as silicon, the stuff of conventional electronics.
In addition to replacing inorganic semiconductors in more or less conventional device architectures, organic systems also are of interest in the more speculative, and potentially more revolutionary area of "molecular electronics.
 
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