Nanostructures of this material were identified as having high current switch ratio and ideal subthreshold slope by Cui and Lieber in 2001. Nanowire whiskers of this material are synthesized in the vapor–liquid–solid method, which employs gold nanoparticles that serve as seed nuclei. A crystalline form of this material has an indirect bandgap of 1.12 electronvolts. The process of etching this material in hydrofluoric acid and then reacting it with unsaturated hydrocarbons on its surface is called passivation. The Czochralski (“cho-KRAHL-skee”) process is used to achieve a high refinement purity of “nine-9s” (“nine nines”) for this material. Diffusion of diborane gas is used as a p-type dopant for this material. For 10 points, what most common semiconductor is used for wafers in solar cells? ■END■
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 116.00 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 107.17 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 83% | 0% | 17% | 96.40 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 101.60 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 116.00 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 74.50 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 120.00 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 96.40 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 103.00 |
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| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Virginia Tech A | 60 | 10 |
| Mason Yu | Brown A | Harvard B | 60 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty C | 60 | -5 |
| Delia Cropper | Oxford A | Warwick B | 60 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago C | WashU A | 60 | -5 |
| Russell Nip | UBC | UW A | 63 | -5 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 63 | -5 |
| Viraj Negandhi | Texas B | ASU | 63 | 10 |
| Andy Huff | LSE | Imperial B | 69 | -5 |
| Trenton Burgess | Indiana B | Chicago B | 76 | 10 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts A | UMass Boston | 78 | -5 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Missouri | 79 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 79 | -5 |
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| Richard Niu | Cornell B | George Washington A | 87 | 10 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | Oxford C | 89 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Penn A | Haverford B | 89 | 10 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Yale A | 89 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Chicago C | 89 | 0 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | George Washington B | 91 | 10 |
| Zachary Leblang | Penn B | Maryland A | 92 | -5 |
| Samuel Miller | Liberty B | Liberty A | 92 | -5 |
| Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | UNC C | 104 | 10 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Brandeis B | 104 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 105 | -5 |
| James Byrne | Bristol | Sheffield | 105 | 10 |
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| Linus Luu | Cambridge D | Cambridge B | 108 | 10 |
| June Yin | WashU B | Chicago D | 108 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 112 | 10 |
| Catherine Welch | UW A | UBC | 112 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia C | Vassar A | 112 | 10 |
| Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Chicago A | 114 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Martin | Brandeis A | Dartmouth A | 116 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland B | John Jay College | 116 | 10 |
| Alexandra Knight | Liberty C | William & Mary | 119 | 10 |
| Aidan Deshong | Claremont B | UC Berkeley B | 120 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont A | 120 | 0 |
| Ethan Rehder | Duke | UNC D | 120 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina | Wake Forest | 120 | 10 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Tufts A | 120 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | UW B | 120 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Bruin A | 120 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Penn B | 120 | 10 |
| Aidan Jones | Liberty A | Liberty B | 120 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial B | LSE | 120 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | NYU B | 120 | 10 |