: a synthetic compound GaAs used especially as a semiconducting material
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To accomplish this, the researchers created a photocathode – the component that creates photoelectric electrons – out of thin nanosheets of gallium arsenide crystals.—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 11 Oct. 2024 Ready to hover The solar power cells were made of a thin film of gallium arsenide, which is far more expensive than other photovoltaic materials, but offers a higher efficiency (30 percent conversion compared to numbers that are typically in the mid-20s).—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024 So the holes in a basic gallium arsenide PCSEL would be set about 280 nm apart.—Susumu Noda, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2024 Nakamura’s team chose gallium arsenide, which has good properties for building quantum wells but is also in commercial use, and so can be precisely fabricated using mature processing technologies.—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for gallium arsenide
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