Gallium antimonide

Gallium antimonide (GaSb) is a semiconducting compound of gallium and antimony of the III-V family. It has a lattice constant of about 0.61 nm with a zinc blende crystal structure. The band gap energy is 0.726 eV. CAS number .

Applications

GaSb can be used for Infrared detectors, infrared LEDs and lasers and transistors.

See also

• Aluminium antimonide
• Indium antimonide
• Gallium arsenide

External links

• properties listed at NSM, Ioffe Institute.
• National Compound Semiconductor Roadmap at the Office of Naval Research