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Supplementing Silicon: the Compound Semiconductors

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For a long time, the compound semiconductors, especially gallium arsenide, were believed to be the basic materials for a new generation of solid-state electronics which would replace silicon after the latter had reached its expected physical limits. This expectation turned out to be wrong. GaAs and other compound semiconductors did not replace silicon, but have found commercial application side by side with silicon, and have reached maturity and mass-production level for certain microelectronic and optoelectronic devices during the last decade of the last century. Therefore, compound semiconductors are no longer regarded as competitors to the elemental semiconductor silicon (and germanium), but as a necessary supplement, owing to some unique physical properties compared with silicon, although their production scale is and will be considerably less than that of Si. As the consumers of devices do not care about the technology utilized in the device, there are and will be overlapping fields of potential applications where devices based on silicon and on compound semiconductors will compete on the basis of performance, compatibility, price per die, etc. This has led in the past and will lead in the future to shifts of market shares between them. A convincing present-day example is the development of germanium-alloyed silicon, Sil − x , Ge x , which is replacing the compound semiconductor GaAs in some areas of high-frequency microelectronics.

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