How to Use telluride in a Sentence

telluride

noun

• The mercury telluride colloidal quantum dots the Chinese team picked for their device behave differently.
  — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026
• Mercury telluride is quite expensive to produce and is mostly used in military detectors, Astakhov says.
  — Meghie Rodrigues, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2025
• The research team tested their ultra-thin film mercury telluride device at room temperature, making the technology more practical for real-world applications.
  — Meghie Rodrigues, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2025
• That initial research also demonstrated that a similar mechanism is active in other metallic systems, such as iron, and in semiconductor materials, such as lead telluride.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Aug. 2017
• Finally, mercury telluride is a heavy-metal compound, and the paper says nothing about long-term skin contact or, for the more ambitious implantable version, biocompatibility or safety over time.
  — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026
• Researchers achieved that by combining mercury telluride colloidal quantum dots, which absorb infrared light, and a dual-layer OLED, which converts that absorbed energy into visible color.
  — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026
• Singh says the mercury telluride device’s development represents a step toward on-chip THz sources—a prerequisite for miniaturizing today’s bulky tabletop systems into components suitable for consumer or data-center use.
  — Meghie Rodrigues, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Oct. 2025