Where can i get some semiconductor wire?

[iScience]

sorry, really didn't know where to post something like this.

But where can i get a hold of a wire of semiconducting material?

 

[Doug Huffman]

sorry, really didn't know where to post something like this. But where can i get a hold of a wire of semiconducting material?

D'you mean like a 'wire' of crystalline silicon? What are the essential physical properties of a semiconductor?

 

[iScience]

crystalline silicon wire would work. just any semi conducting wire.

not sure if that's a trick question but.. essential property: at standard conditions most charge carriers are in the valence band

 

[ZapperZ]

Why do you want one?

A "wire" is usually something one uses to transport charge or to conduct current. One usually want something that can do this efficiently, so it makes no sense to me why you would want a "semiconductor wire", considering how poor of a conductor such a thing is. For what purpose would you want to use a "semiconductor wire"?

Zz.

 

[iScience]

i had an idea for a principle i'd like to test. but I'm not quite sure i want to share it just yet.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Since you don't want to explain what you are doing, you'd best be relying on doing your own research.

Start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_materials. See which ones are metals, and then google, "[metal] wire".

 

[iScience]

thanks! V50