Definition of silane

Silane is compound with silicon and hydrogen, is the floorboard of a series of compounds, including silane silane (SiH4) and b (Si2H6) and some more advanced silicon hydrogen compounds.The most used is silicane.Generally the silican do silane for short.
Silane as a source of silicon components of gas, can be used in the manufacture of high purity polycrystalline silicon, monocrystalline silicon, microcrystalline silicon and amorphous silicon, silicon nitride, silicon oxide, heterogeneous silicon, all kinds of metal silicides.Because of its high purity and can achieve fine control, has become many other important special gas silicon source cannot be replaced.Silane is widely used in microelectronics, optoelectronics industry, used in the manufacture of solar cells and flat panel display, glass and steel plating, and is by far the world's only large-scale production of granular high purity silicon intermediate.Silane high-tech applications continues to appear, including used in the manufacture of advanced ceramics, composite materials, functional materials, biological materials, high energy material and so on, as many new technologies, new materials, the basis of the new device.The silane and is famous for its characteristic of spontaneous combustion and explosive.Spontaneous ignition of the silane has a very wide scope and strong burning energy, determines its gas is a kind of high risk.

3-Mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane
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