To build the new ion device, Monroe and his colleagues used conventional microchip-fabrication methods to first deposit layers of the semiconductor compounds gallium arsenide and aluminum gallium arsenide onto a gallium arsenide wafer.
What does AR stand for?
AR stands for Arsenide
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By contrast, gallium arsenide chips, which are used in DVD video players, communications equipment and lasers, are 40 times faster than silicon chips - but they are fragile and expensive.
By delicately parting curtains of electrons, scientists have gazed for the first time into channels on a crystal of the semiconductor gallium arsenide (SN: 8/16/97, p.
In one such effort, Ralph Jimenez and his coworkers at the University of California, San Diego are using X-ray diffraction techniques to measure changes in the spacing of atoms in laser-blasted gallium arsenide.