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Germanium (Wikipedia)
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Wikipedia's topic entry on germanium: its properties, its role as the material of the earliest transistors, and the industry's later shift toward silicon.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanium
Source Typereference
Reliability Tier3
Wikipedia's article on germanium carries no named author or fixed editorial board behind any version of the page, hence the lower tier, though it is useful here for its account of germanium's semiconductor history and its comparison of purity requirements against silicon. Sources
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