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The last few decades have seen a revolution in the field of electronics and a tremendous increase in the number of applications of crystalline semiconductors such as silicon. These developments were possible because the electrical conductivity of crystalline silicon can be controlled over many orders of magnitude by doping, that is, by the addition during growth of the crystal of small concentrations of impurities. However, there are a number of areas where the expense of preparing these crystals and where the limited size to which they can be grown (at present about 25 cm in diameter) have prevented any very large-area applications. For example, crystalline silicon solar cells are widely used in space vehicles for converting sunlight into electrical power, but the economics of their production is such that their use here on earth is relatively limited.
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LeComber, P.G. (1991). Amorphous Silicon-Electronics into the 21st Century. In: Miller, L.S., Mullin, J.B. (eds) Electronic Materials. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3818-9_11
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