Re: localization: insulators, white, etc.

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

Icy

and so a high pressure gas is used in Van de Graafs because they have more
traps?  (more practical than embedding it in pitch.

bc

"John S. Denker" wrote:

> On 04/11/2003 04:42 PM, Chuck Britton wrote:
> > Isn't diamond a large-gap semiconductor
>
> Indeed it is.
>
>  > and also a pretty good
> > (practical except for expense) insulator at 'normal' temperatures????
>
> Well, assuming it is pure and crystalline,
> calling it a semiconductor is the starting
> point and ending point.
>
> Physically, it's like a vacuum.  If you inject
> some charge into a vacuum, it looks like an

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