quaternary alloy

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quaternary alloy

[′kwät·ən‚er·ē ′al‚ȯi]

(metallurgy)

An alloy containing four principal elements apart from accidental impurities.

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The binary and ternary tin, silver and copper alloys produced faster wetting times and higher wetting forces than the quaternary alloys and the control tin/lead alloy.

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The primary innovation enabling this new path to high efficiency is the identification of InAlAsSb quaternary alloys as a high band gap material layer that can be grown lattice-matched to InP.

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