Silicon °C respectively are the second-highest among all the metalloids and nonmetals, being only surpassed by boron. Silicon is the eighth most common element in the universe by mass, but very rarely occurs as the pure element in the Earth's crust. It is most widely distributed in dusts, sands, planetoids, and planets as various forms of silicon dioxide (silica) or silicates. More than 90% of the Earth's crust is composed of silicate minerals, making silicon the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust (about 28% by mass) after oxygen. Most silicon is used commercially without being separated, and often with
Antimony telluride It can be transformed into both "n"-type and "p"-type semiconductors by doping with an appropriate dopant. SbTe forms the pseudobinary intermetallic system germanium-antimony-tellurium with germanium telluride, GeTe. Like bismuth telluride, BiTe, antimony telluride has a large thermoelectric effect and is therefore used in solid state refrigerators. Antimony telluride Antimony telluride is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula SbTe. It is a grey crystalline solid with layered structure. Layers consist of two atomic sheets of antimony and three atomic sheets of tellurium and are held together by weak van der Waals forces. SbTe is a narrow-gap semiconductor with a band