Scientists at the Research and
Technology Department of the
Naval Surface Warfare Center in
White Oak, Maryland, have produced high quality insulator films
on gallium arsenide semiconductors, a concept previously thought
to be impossible. The technique
could refashion electronics.
According to researchers, gallium arsenide is intrinsically a better
semiconductor than silicon, because
electrons in the former travel at a
much greater speed than in silicon.
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