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- From: tucker@mitre.org (William Tucker)
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- Subject: Re: Doping Mercury
- Keywords: Re: Doping Mercury
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.155918.26579@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 15:59:18 GMT
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- Hello Josh -
-
-
- > in other words, 'doped' mercury would look and act
- > like mercury with maybe some odd elecrical properties,
- > not like gold?
-
-
- I don't know. It could look and act differently. Most doping in
- the semiconductor realm affects electrical properties. Colin was
- right about electrons controlling chemical reactions. However, it
- is the Atomic number that determines whether a substance is a
- particular element or not, this is from the number of protons
- that it has. Electrons exist in the exact number as there are
- protons in an unionized element.
-
- > of the metals which are said to be used in the preperation
- > of the philosopher's stone, one (iron) has odd electrical
- > properties (ferromagnetism, of course). I don't know that
- > I see any immediate connection....
-
- I'm really out of my league in speaking about alchemy. There are
- probably combinations of things which have unlikely properties,
- witness the superconducting substances and advances made in the
- area of ceramic for car engine parts. Helium also has weird
- properties, flows uphill in liquid state. Water has an
- enormous suface tension, such that striking it's surface with
- an iron rod with great force will straighten an iron rod out
- (an old mining trick for straightening out dynamite "tamping"
- rods). Who know? My stuff is more mind related, or developing
- awareness.
-
-
- > most ionic substances exist as gases, eh?
-
-
- Ionic substances exist in all forms. An ion means the element
- has a charge, it's either missing or has too many electrons.
- An isotope means that it has an imbalance in nuetrons, like
- deutirium. There are supposed to be as many nuetrons as there
- are protons in a stable atom too, just as there are supposed
- to be the same number of electrons as there are protons.
-
-
-
- In semiconductors the dopants
- are not ionized, they just have tendencies to gain or lose an
- electron based upon their outer electron shells, when electricity
- is applied, like normal shells consist of eight electrons, an atom
- with seven in it's outer shell would want to gain one more to become
- "more" stable; an atom with one electron in it's outer shell would want
- to lose that electron to have a more stable electon configuration, but
- only in the presence of excess energy like electricity or as in the solar
- cell, impingent light.
-
- The dopant is actually combined with silicon gas to get a better
- mixture and because the deposition method allows them to make
- tiny circuits using photographic masks. The process is like taping
- off a car for painting, only in the case of semiconductors
- multiple layers of paint (silicon + dopant) are deposited on the
- chip. The pattern layed down with the (paint) mixture of silicon
- and dopant is in the case of semiconductors the circuit.
-
- Multiple layers of (silicon + dopant) are
- layed down on the silicon wafer to achieve semiconductor circuitry.
- The circuitry is microscopic in size. The masks are actually
- like negatives that light is shown thourgh, onto the wafers
- after they've been painted with light sensitive stuff, it hardens
- when exposed to light. After a wafer has been masked off it goes
- through a deposition cycle, then the mask is dissolved and a new
- one layed down, and the process is repeated until the circuit is
- built. There can be multiple copies of the same circuit on a single
- chip. Hope this isn't too vague, if it is let me know.
-
- > josh
-
- See ya.
-
- Wm T.
-
-
- .standard disclaimer
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