How to Use indium in a Sentence

indium

noun

• The measurements revealed that alloys of lead, indium, and tin were the likeliest phases.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2020
• Demand for some metals like neodymium and indium could grow by more than a dozen times by 2050, and there simply might not be enough supply to power the green revolution.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2018
• Officials told us it's basically the equal of a indium gallium solder on the new chip.
  — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 12 June 2019
• Almost 90 percent of smartphone touchscreens utilize a rare and expensive compound called indium tin oxide, which has kept the price of such screens high.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 24 Dec. 2015
• An Australian scientist may have developed a solution that would help the world wean itself off of indium.
  — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
• The team called the color YInMn after the chemicals that were combined to create it: yttrium, indium and manganese oxides.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 May 2017
• The team called the color YInMn after the chemicals that were combined to create it: yttrium, indium and manganese oxides.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 9 May 2017
• Europium and indium are crucial for televisions and touch screens.
  — Xiaozhi Lim, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2020
• Part of the screen assembly is a layer of indium tin oxide, a clear, conductive material.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2019
• Although indium is not technically a rare earth element, its economics are very much the same.
  — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
• In most devices, this layer is made from a compound known as indium tin oxide (ITO), which is rigid, expensive to manufacture, and requires the rare metal indium.
  — Byluis Melecio-Zambrano, science.org, 23 Feb. 2023
• The key observation came when the researchers looked into a gallium alloy, galinstan, composed of gallium, indium, and tin.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2017
• The studies will focus on more than a dozen critical minerals, including tin and indium geologists say is found across Alaska.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2022
• Elements now suffuse technology like spices in an elaborate dish — iPhones, for instance, contain a dash of indium, a sprinkling of terbium and hints of some 70 other elements.
  — Xiaozhi Lim, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2020
• Luminar made the cost question harder by making its lidar’s receiver (the that acts like your eye’s retina) out of indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) instead of silicon.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 12 Apr. 2018
• Kanatzidis’s team combined lithium, indium, phosphorous, and selenium in a layered array of crystals.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Jan. 2020
• In the paper, scientists characterize the meteorites’ material phases as alloys of lead, tin and indium, which is the softest non-alkali metal.
  — Fox News, 24 Mar. 2020
• The films are fabricated from transparent conductive oxides (such as indium tin oxide), graphene, or silver nanowires and do not noticeably reduce light transmission.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2022
• Others, like the percentage of indium that ends up in electronics, are necessarily rougher estimates, and the researchers caution against treating any number here as a definitive estimate.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022
• Now, researchers at Pennsylvania State University have developed a new material, called strontium vanadate, that shares the transparent and conductive properties of indium tin oxide at a fraction of the cost.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 24 Dec. 2015
• In experiments, the researchers created terahertz switches on a platform of indium aluminum nitride and gallium nitride.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2023
• The materials the company is using are relatively unusual: aluminum as the superconducting wire and indium arsenide as the semiconductor that surrounds it.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2022
• The team’s design works by exploiting the interactions between ultra-thin materials using a conductive material known as indium tin oxide.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 1 Nov. 2022
• The firm's Rare Metals division produces, reclaims, refines, and markets high-value niche metals and compounds that include gallium, indium, rhenium, tantalum, niobium, and hafnium.
  — Moneyshow, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• Most of the worries about solar panel production have focused on the elements that go into the panels themselves, like gallium, cadmium, germanium, indium, selenium, and tellurium.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2022
• Three components: yttrium oxide, manganese oxide, and indium oxide.
  — Mark Thiessen, National Geographic, 8 Dec. 2020
• For these components, more exotic materials like indium phosphide, gallium arsenide, and germanium work better.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
• Luminar's lidar uses indium-gallium arsenide sensors to detect return flashes.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Apr. 2018
• The low-temperature polycrystalline oxide will also use IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) technology for improved efficiency and responsiveness.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 14 July 2021
• Both types contain a layer of gallium indium arsenide sandwiched between alternating electricity-conducting layers of reflective gallium arsenide and gallium aluminum arsenide.
  — Josh McHugh, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2001

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