silicon oxide


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Noun1.silicon oxide - a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2)silicon oxide - a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite
cristobalite - a white mineral consisting of silica; found in volcanic rocks
quartz - a hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities
chert - variety of silica containing microcrystalline quartz
flint - a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
lechatelierite, quartz, quartz glass, vitreous silica, crystal - colorless glass made of almost pure silica
oxide - any compound of oxygen with another element or a radical
silex - a pure form of finely ground silica
tridymite - a mineral form of silica
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The record-breaking Hanergy SHJ battery uses LONGi high-quality N-type silicon wafer as the base, amorphous silicon membrane and Silicon carbon alloy thin-film for the passivation layer, and microcrystalline silicon oxide material for the window layer.
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This fact is evidenced by high amounts of calcium oxide and silicon oxide in the composition of melt shop waste (Mourao et al., 2007).
The efficiency enhancement of the mc-Si solar cells was observed after by applying silicon oxide passivation layer grown by two-step thermal oxidation (TO) method.
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The evidence in favor of the star being old comes from detection of masers, which the European Space Agency (http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/08/Not_your_typical_protostar) describes as "the microwave equivalent of a visible-light laser." Data gathered by the ESA's Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows that the star is emitting silicon oxide and hydroxyl masers in patterns that are exclusively associated with late-stage stars.
The low mobility is due to electrically active defects which trap carriers at the silicon oxide gate dielectric--SiC interface.