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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.
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Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 9 May 2023
LEDs previously had been made of gallium arsenide.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2022
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
Today, such circuitry is largely made from GaAs (gallium arsenide), though GaAs offers nowhere near the same electron mobility [PC World] .
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2010
Physicist Tony Kent and his colleagues at the University of Nottingham in England managed to create such an amplifier from a thin, layered lattice made of two semiconductors, gallium arsenide and aluminum arsenide.
—Laurie Rich, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2010
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
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
Gallium nitride, for example, emits blue light, whereas gallium arsenide emits red.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2020
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Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 9 May 2023
LEDs previously had been made of gallium arsenide.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2022
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
Today, such circuitry is largely made from GaAs (gallium arsenide), though GaAs offers nowhere near the same electron mobility [PC World] .
—Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2010
Physicist Tony Kent and his colleagues at the University of Nottingham in England managed to create such an amplifier from a thin, layered lattice made of two semiconductors, gallium arsenide and aluminum arsenide.
—Laurie Rich, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2010
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
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
Gallium nitride, for example, emits blue light, whereas gallium arsenide emits red.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 2 Nov. 2020
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circa 1961, in the meaning defined above
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