How to Use germanium in a Sentence

germanium

noun

• Indeed, the United States is home to the world’s largest germanium mine.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Scientists at the time, and to this day, aren’t sure why there wasn’t enough germanium 71.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2022
• At present, some 94% of the world’s gallium and about 60% of the world’s supply of germanium come from China.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• To test this idea, the researchers built a detector out of a crystal of germanium the size of a coffee cup.
  — George Musser, Science | AAAS, 7 Sep. 2020
• For germanium, Canada’s Teck Resources is one of the world’s largest producers.
  — Laura He, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
• As late as the 1960s, electrical engineers were still dropping black wax onto blocks of germanium and etching away at it.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• The very cold devices, known as cryogenic detectors, are made with a crystalline absorber such as germanium.
  — Lisa Randall, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2012
• That is how closely the manganese sulfide curve matches the germanium selenide one, this reviewer said.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 July 2023
• On Monday, China placed restrictions on exports of germanium and gallium, two metals used to make chips.
  — Ana Swanson, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• Research already shows that perovskite cells based on nontoxic metals like tin or germanium are approaching the efficiency of the ones with lead.
  — Conor Prendergast, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2020
• The idea was that the protons and electrons in germanium should emit the spontaneous radiation, which ultrasensitive detectors would pick up.
  — Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2022
• These sheets were floated on germanium, allowing them to align with a vertical silicon surface.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2018
• China’s measures on graphite, gallium and germanium has made the prospect of similar measures on rare earths more real, hastening the need for an alternative to Chinese supply.
  — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• This conferred a particular advantage: A high-powered laser, tuned to the right frequency, can selectively melt the germanium.
  — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 6 May 2017
• In August, China didn’t sell any germanium or gallium outside its borders.
  — Laura He, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
• Using materials like silicon and germanium, Dr. Shockley and two other scientists had shown how to build the tiny transistors that would one day be used to store and move information in the form of an electrical signal.
  — New York Times, 20 Nov. 2021
• After all, germanium is a better semiconductor than silicon, but silicon still rules the roost.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2020
• Last month, China announced export restrictions on two rare earths, gallium and germanium, that are used to make computer chips, which left many countries scrambling for alternatives.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023
• Physicists hope that these experiments — or rival WIMP detectors that use materials such as germanium and argon — will make the first direct detection of dark matter.
  — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2020
• The starting point is a thin film of germanium, stretched over a thin, flexible, plastic surface, with microscopic circular columns extending upward.
  — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 5 May 2017
• On Monday, China imposed curbs on overseas sales of gallium and germanium, elements essential to making semiconductors, which have become a growing source of friction between the world’s top two economies.
  — Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 7 July 2023
• For a time, scientists thought that would be germanium—an element that’s a superior semiconductor to silicon.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 21 July 2021
• Despite the fact that some states have gone so far as to ban use of these materials, there’s no evidence that today’s photovoltaic cells contain arsenic, germanium, hexavalent chromium or perfluoroalkyl substances.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
• Located 6,800 feet underground inside a nickel mine in Ontario, the initial experiment will use four towers that each contain six detectors made from crystals of silicon germanium to attempt to sense dark matter.
  — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2020
• Instead of using traditional photography lenses, which are of course made of glass, the infrared images were created using lenses made from germanium, a metal that is transparent at infrared wavelengths.
  — New York Times, 13 Dec. 2019
• China has said that gallium and germanium, along with their chemical compounds, will be subject to export controls meant to protect Chinese national security starting Aug. 1.
  — Tony Czuczka, Fortune, 16 July 2023
• But this week, the government announced unspecified controls on exports of gallium and germanium, metals used in making semiconductors and solar panels.
  — Joe McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• The new transistors use the mainstay materials of the semiconductor industry: silicon and germanium..
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Mar. 2024
• The company bakes silicon and germanium at extremely high temperatures, up to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, which allows them to realign atoms into a perfect diamond lattice structure.
  — Paul Brinkmann, OrlandoSentinel.com, 31 May 2018
• China hit back earlier this summer with its own export controls on gallium and germanium, raw materials essential for producing chips.
  — Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 3 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024