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Spectrophotometric and polarographic methods for the determination of silicon at ng/g levels in gallium arsenide

Spektralphotometrische und polarographische Bestimmung von Silicium in Galliumarsenid im ng/g-Bereich

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Die beschriebenen Verfahren beruhen auf der Si-Bestimmung als Heteropolysäure. Sie umfassen den Aufschluß der Probe mit Salzsäure und Brom im PTFE-Gefäß, Eliminierung der Matrixelemente (Verdampfung von Arsen als Arsentrichlorid und Extraktion von Ga als Tetrachlorokomplex mit Diisopropylether) sowie anschließende spektralphotometrische Bestimmung als Silicomolybdänblau oder polarographische Bestimmung als β-Silicomolybdänsäure. Die Optimierung der Vorbehandlungstechnik sowie der instrumentellen Analysenparameter wird beschrieben. Die Nachweisgrenzen liegen bei 7 ppb bzw. 5 ppb. Die vorgeschlagenen Methoden wurden auf verschiedene Sidotierte Proben angewendet. Die Ergebnisse werden verglichen und Unterschiede diskutiert.

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Spectrophotometric and differential pulse polarographic determinations of silicon in gallium arsenide as heteropoly acid have been established. The analysis comprises decomposition with a mixture of hydrochloric acid and bromine in a PTFE vessel, elimination of matrix elements by evaporation of arsenic as arsenic trichloride and extraction of gallium as gallium tetrachloro-complex anion by di-isopropyl ether, and finally spectrophotometric determination of silicomolybdenum blue or polarographic determination of β-silicomolybdic acid. Optimization of sample pretreatment procedures and instrumental determination have been carefully elaborated. The detection limits of the developed methods were found to be 7 ppb and 5 ppb, respectively, for spectrophotometry and polarography. The proposed methods have been practically applied to the analysis of various Si-doped samples. The results obtained by the chemical methods are compared with those from the electrical measurement and the discrepancies found are discussed.

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Liu, R.S., Yang, M.H. Spectrophotometric and polarographic methods for the determination of silicon at ng/g levels in gallium arsenide. Z. Anal. Chem. 325, 272–277 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00498172

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