selenide
noun
sel·e·nide
ˈse-lə-ˌnīd 
: a binary compound of selenium with a more electropositive element or group
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In a landmark breakthrough, Chinese scientists have fabricated the world’s first wafer-scale, two-dimensional indium selenide (InSe) semiconductor, outperforming silicon and paving the way for next-gen chips.
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2025
Small cadmium selenide crystals would immediately form but then stop because the injection cooled the solvent.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2023
However, very similar curves also appeared in Dr. Dias’s thesis for an entirely different material, germanium selenide.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 July 2023
Kimber first became suspicious about Dias’s work when Hamlin pointed out a detail in a 2021 Physical Review Letters (PRL) paper on which Kimber and Dias were co-authors: A plot about manganese sulfide was nearly identical to a plot of germanium selenide in Dias’s thesis.
—Bydaniel Garisto, science.org, 13 Apr. 2023
Molybdenum disulfide is a few steps ahead because researchers have worked with it more than, say, tungsten selenide, and know how to grow the material over large areas.
—Katherine Bourzac, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2017
Fortunately, some progress has been made by companies trying to commercialize other flexible solar materials, such as the semiconductor made of copper indium gallium selenide.
—Samuel D. Stranks, Scientific American, 1 July 2015
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Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2025
Small cadmium selenide crystals would immediately form but then stop because the injection cooled the solvent.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2023
However, very similar curves also appeared in Dr. Dias’s thesis for an entirely different material, germanium selenide.
—Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 July 2023
Kimber first became suspicious about Dias’s work when Hamlin pointed out a detail in a 2021 Physical Review Letters (PRL) paper on which Kimber and Dias were co-authors: A plot about manganese sulfide was nearly identical to a plot of germanium selenide in Dias’s thesis.
—Bydaniel Garisto, science.org, 13 Apr. 2023
Molybdenum disulfide is a few steps ahead because researchers have worked with it more than, say, tungsten selenide, and know how to grow the material over large areas.
—Katherine Bourzac, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2017
Fortunately, some progress has been made by companies trying to commercialize other flexible solar materials, such as the semiconductor made of copper indium gallium selenide.
—Samuel D. Stranks, Scientific American, 1 July 2015
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“Selenide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/selenide. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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