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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| Rohan Shelke | UC Berkeley B | Claremont B | 58 | -5 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Liberty C | 60 | -5 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Virginia Tech A | 60 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago C | WashU A | 60 | -5 |
| Delia Cropper | Oxford A | Warwick B | 60 | 10 |
| Mason Yu | Brown A | Harvard B | 60 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 79 | -5 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Missouri | 79 | 10 |
| Karan Gurazada | Texas A | TAMU | 86 | 10 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | George Washington A | 87 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Chicago C | 89 | 0 |
| Cormac Stephenson | Southampton A | Oxford C | 89 | 10 |
| Danny Han | Penn A | Haverford B | 89 | 10 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Yale A | 89 | 10 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | NYU A | George Washington B | 91 | 10 |
| Samuel Miller | Liberty B | Liberty A | 92 | -5 |
| Zachary Leblang | Penn B | Maryland A | 92 | -5 |
| Rasheeq Azad | UNC B | UNC C | 104 | 10 |
| Nathan Sheffield | MIT A | Brandeis B | 104 | 10 |
| Jiping Fang | Illinois C | Illinois B | 105 | 10 |
| James Byrne | Bristol | Sheffield | 105 | 10 |
| Kevin Park | Claremont A | UCSD | 105 | -5 |
| June Yin | WashU B | Chicago D | 108 | 10 |
| Linus Luu | Cambridge D | Cambridge B | 108 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard A | BU | 108 | 10 |
| Patrick Rivas-Giorgi | Columbia C | Vassar A | 112 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | UC Berkeley A | UCLA | 112 | 10 |
| Catherine Welch | UW A | UBC | 112 | 10 |
| Jacob Harl | Missoui S&T | Chicago A | 114 | 10 |
| Ian Parsons | Maryland B | John Jay College | 116 | 10 |
| Nathaniel Martin | Brandeis A | Dartmouth A | 116 | 10 |
| Alexandra Knight | Liberty C | William & Mary | 119 | 10 |
| Aidan Jones | Liberty A | Liberty B | 120 | 10 |
| Ethan Rehder | Duke | UNC D | 120 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina | Wake Forest | 120 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Bruin A | 120 | 10 |
| Eugenia Tong | Imperial B | LSE | 120 | 10 |
| Andy Yu | Maryland A | Penn B | 120 | 10 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Tufts A | 120 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | NYU B | 120 | 10 |
| Aidan Deshong | Claremont B | UC Berkeley B | 120 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD | Claremont A | 120 | 0 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | UW B | 120 | 10 |