From company recent 10Q...
Combined Company Plans
Coretec’s Technology. Coretec’s underlying technology is based on the efficient production of a high value liquid silicon precursor, cyclohexasilane. A key advantage of Cyclohexasilane (“CHS”) is that it is a liquid at room temperature and does not convert to a gas until heated above 400°F. This compares to materials commonly used for manufacturing silicon-based semiconductors and solar cells (monosilane or trichlorosilane) that have much lower boiling points which leads to higher cost handling and shipping. Another key advantage of CHS is that the production rate of the silicon-forming step can be increased by a factor of six relative to the currently used materials, leading to significant cost savings. The Company anticipates that CHS will first be used as an alternative to monosilane or trichlorosilane when adding silicon to lithium ion batteries or when used in manufacturing silicon-based semiconductors.
I believe Coretecs cyclohexasilane will be successfully marketed as well as other products the new company has. The opportunities in this field are huge!
From an article on Silicon Semiconductors...
Silicon (Si) Semiconductor
Silicon is a period 3 element belonging to Block P and Group 14. Its electronic configuration is [Ne]3s2 3p2.
Silicon is available in abundance, second only to oxygen, and seldom occurs as a pure free element naturally. It constitutes 25.7% of the earth’s crust by weight. Silicon is normally found in the form of silicon dioxide or silicates in rocks, minerals and sands.
Single silicon crystals required for semiconductor devices are obtained using the Czochralski process. Silicon is extensively used in integrated circuits, which form the basis of most computers; hence modern technology is almost entirely dependent on it
Applications
Pure monocrystalline silicon finds use in the production of silicon wafers for the semiconductor sector, in high-efficiency and high-cost photovoltaic applications and in electronics.
Pure silicon is an intrinsic semiconductor and conducts electrons and electron holes released by atoms in the crystal on heating. This causes an increase in the electrical conductivity of silicon with increase in temperature.
The conductivity of pure silicon is quite low, hence it is not suitable as a circuit element for electrons and is doped with small amounts of other elements. This doping ensures that the conductivity of silicon is substantially increased and its electrical response is adjusted by controlling the charge and number of activated carriers.
This kind of control is essential for solar cells, transistors, semiconductor detectors and other semiconductor devices that are used in the computer industry and other technical applications. For instance, silicon is used as a continuous wave Raman laser medium to create coherent light in silicon photonics, even though it is not very effective as a constant light source.
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