amorphous germanium

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nonoxide glasses

  • Figure 2: The irregular arrangement of ions in a sodium silicate glass.
    In industrial glass: Semiconducting solids

    …as amorphous silicon (a-Si) and amorphous germanium (a-Ge). These materials are the basis of most photovoltaic applications, such as the solar cells in pocket calculators. Amorphous solids have a liquidlike atomic order but are not considered to be true glasses because they do not exhibit a continuous transformation into the…

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