id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 0r967368222 William A. O'Brien Toward Direct Bandgap Germanium Optoelectronics 1904 .txt text/plain 372 16 42 In the second case, carbon sitting on Ge lattice sites induces strong local perturbations leading to an effect called band anticrossing, which strongly repels the Γ valley downward, again potentially yielding a direct bandgap. Ge has since been supplanted by silicon (Si), which has superior electronic and chemical attributes, and gallium arsenide (GaAs), which possesses superior properties for light-matter interaction (optoelectronics). cache/0r967368222.txt txt/0r967368222.txt