How to Use indium in a Sentence
indium
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The measurements revealed that alloys of lead, indium, and tin were the likeliest phases.
—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2020
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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
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Officials told us it's basically the equal of a indium gallium solder on the new chip.
—Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 12 June 2019
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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
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An Australian scientist may have developed a solution that would help the world wean itself off of indium.
—Frank Holmes, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
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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
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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
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Europium and indium are crucial for televisions and touch screens.
—Xiaozhi Lim, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2020
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Part of the screen assembly is a layer of indium tin oxide, a clear, conductive material.
—Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2019
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Although indium is not technically a rare earth element, its economics are very much the same.
—Frank Holmes, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Kanatzidis’s team combined lithium, indium, phosphorous, and selenium in a layered array of crystals.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 Jan. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In experiments, the researchers created terahertz switches on a platform of indium aluminum nitride and gallium nitride.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Three components: yttrium oxide, manganese oxide, and indium oxide.
—Mark Thiessen, National Geographic, 8 Dec. 2020
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For these components, more exotic materials like indium phosphide, gallium arsenide, and germanium work better.
—Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2017
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Luminar's lidar uses indium-gallium arsenide sensors to detect return flashes.
—Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 19 Apr. 2018
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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
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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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Depending on the kind of technology used, a solar module typically requires materials such as glass, silicon, copper, silver, aluminium, cadmium, tellurium, indium, gallium and selenium.
—Mayank Aggarwal, Quartz, 26 May 2021
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