What is the link between elemental and compound semiconductors?
Semiconductor materials are found in column IV and neighboring
column of the periodic table.
Elemental semiconductors: C (diamond), Si, Ge, Sn (grey). They
crystallize in a diamond structure so are bound by covalent
bonds.
Compound semiconductors: Binary compounds: Ga1-xAlxAs,
ZnSxSe1-x, Zn1-xMgxSySe1-y, where 0 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 1, 0 ≤ 𝑦 ≤ 1, GaN, GaP,
GaAs, GaSb, InP, InAs, InSb, ZnS, ZnSe, ZnTe, CdS, CdSe, CdTe;
Depending on the electronegativity bond type is mixture of covalent
and ionic types