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silicide

silicide

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A compound of silicon and a metal
  • noun
  • /ˈsɪlɪˌsaɪd/
  • Specialized
: silicuro
  • Jones Ion beam synthesis of silicides. White crystallization kinetics. Smith
  • silicide synthesis
  • properties of silicides

Examples

  • Fabrication and properties of iron silicides. Von Kanel

    Academic text (1993)

  • Turnbull, Structure of Glasses I. Navrotsky, Sales, Silicide Microstructures and Deformation.

    Academic text (1993)

  • There is a limit to increasing the fuel density of the uranium silicide fuel planned for the ANS.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Structural relaxation of glasses. Spaepen, Stebbins silicide synthesis and processing.

    Academic text (1993)

  • The 11 new topics for technical symposia this year include silicides, germanides, and their interfaces; developing materials processes.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Crystal nucleation. Greer Silicide mechanical behavior and problems. Sadananda, Gibala, Suresh.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Silicide oxidation and properties. Worrell Superconductivity and electronic structure II. Kuzmany, Shirley Superconductivity: Flux pinning and dynamics. Budhani, Gray.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Texture in polycrystalline films. Bilello: Grain boundary-dislocation interactions II. Thibault, Zhu: Novel silicide growth techniques. Ditchek: Properties of silicides. Ottaviani.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Texture in polycrystalline films. Bilello: Grain boundary-dislocation interactions II. Thibault, Zhu: Novel silicide growth techniques. Ditchek: Properties of silicides. Ottaviani.

    Academic text (1993)

  • In the laboratory, the team discovered a new silicide that improved semiconductor performance.

Surface Forms

silicide singular
silicides plural

Morphology

silicide = silicon (semi-transparent) = silic + ide

Formed by the regular chemical naming pattern silicon + -ide, but recognizing '-ide' as indicating a binary compound requires specialized (chemistry) knowledge.

Etymology

The word silicide comes from silicon, the element in sand and computer chips, and the ending -ide, which means 'compound' in chemistry, as in 'oxide' or 'chloride'. So a silicide is simply a compound made of silicon and another element, which explains how the term is used for materials in electronics.