Not exact matches
One option, Gauthier says, is to work with a new type of glass made from a
chalcogenide, which
has good semiconductor properties and contains one or more elements from the periodic table's
chalcogenide group, also known as the «oxygen family,» which includes oxygen, sulfur, selenium and tellurium.
«From our theoretical perspective, the novelty in this study is that we now
have a better understanding of why adding plain salt lowers the melting point for these metal - oxides and especially reduces the energy barriers of the intermediates on the way to transforming them into
chalcogenides.»
The group was the first to show that monolayers of two different types of metal
chalcogenides — binary compounds of sulfur, selenium or tellurium with a more electropositive element or radical —
having such different lattice constants can be grown together to form a perfectly aligned stacking bilayer.