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Gallium Arsenide is most useful in applications where toughness and durability are important. Its hardness and strength make it a good choice where dust or abrasive particles tend to build up on or bombard the optical surfaces.
The material is non-hygroscopic , safe to use in laboratory and field conditions and is chemically stable except when in contact with strong acids. Gallium arsenide is used in the manufacture of light-emitting diode s (LEDs), which are found in optical communications and control systems.
Gallium arsenide can replace silicon in the manufacture of linear ICs and digital ICs. Linear (also called analog ) devices include oscillator s and amplifier s.
Gallium arsenide is an important semiconductor material for high-cost, high-efficiency solar cells and is used for single-crystalline thin-film solar cells and for multi-junction solar cells.
Despite GaAs-based photovoltaics being the clear champions of efficiency for solar cells, they have relatively limited use in today’s market.
In both world electricity generation and world electricity generating capacity, solar electricity is growing faster than any other source of fuel (wind, hydro, biomass, and so on) for the last decade.
However, GaAs solar cells have not currently been adopted for widespread solar electricity generation. This is largely due to the cost of GaAs solar cells – in space applications, high performance is required and the corresponding high cost of the existing GaAs technologies is accepted.
GALLIUM ARSENIDE WINDOWS MARKET SIZE AND FORECAST
The Global Gallium Arsenide windows market accounted for $XX Billion in 2023 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2024 to 2030.
Windows made of gallium arsenide (GaAs) from Edmund Optics are opaque in the visible spectrum and transmit infrared light from 1 to 16 m. With a Knoop hardness of 750, gallium arsenide is a strong, resilient material that can be used as a protective window in laser material processing applications where dust, metallic, or abrasive particle debris is anticipated.
For applications requiring robust optics, such as thermal imaging, forward-looking infrared (FLIR), or CO2 lasers, gallium arsenide (GaAs) windows are ideal. With the exception of strong acids, gallium arsenide is chemically stable and insoluble in water. Because gallium arsenide is dangerous, it must be handled with gloves.
