How to Use indium in a Sentence

indium

noun
  • But indium and tin do no damage.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The wafer was then capped with low-melting-point indium and sealed in a quartz cavity.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2025
  • This sidesteps the usual problems that stem from adding indium.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2023
  • To overcome this, the researchers added indium to the mixture.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The researchers solved this by doping lithium-indium chloride with iron.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Europium and indium are crucial for televisions and touch screens.
    — Xiaozhi Lim, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2020
  • The measurements revealed that alloys of lead, indium, and tin were the likeliest phases.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Although indium is not technically a rare earth element, its economics are very much the same.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Adding indium shifts the wavelength of light toward red but also lowers efficiency.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2023
  • The problem is that this amazing property does not extend to the holes in indium arsenide, which are not much more mobile than holes in silicon.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2016
  • The final layer is a thin film of indium gallium arsenide that supercharges electron flow.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026
  • An Australian scientist may have developed a solution that would help the world wean itself off of indium.
    — Frank Holmes, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Part of the screen assembly is a layer of indium tin oxide, a clear, conductive material.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2019
  • The chip, detailed in a Nature paper, has eight topological qubits made from indium arsenide and aluminum.
    — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Zinc, silver, lead, tin, and indium high grade outliers were constrained during interpolation on a per domain basis.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Their helmet visors use copper and indium tin oxide coatings for heat and glare control, while a head-up display provides real-time data inside the visor.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Replacing just one percent of iron atoms with indium enabled the researchers to increase the atomic spacing of the cathode material.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 3 Mar. 2026
  • His 1966 patented design used transparent indium tin oxide conductors paired with fine copper wiring to sense touch.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The key observation came when the researchers looked into a gallium alloy, galinstan, composed of gallium, indium, and tin.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The indium or tin are deposited onto the MoS 2 first, protecting the semiconductor, then they are capped with gold to keep away the oxygen.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2021
  • The researchers specify the battery being used for testing; one electrode is an indium/lithium metal foil, and the other is a mix of carbon, sulfur, and the glass electrolyte.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The studies will focus on more than a dozen critical minerals, including tin and indium geologists say is found across Alaska.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Demand for some metals like neodymium and indium could grow by more than a dozen times by 2050, and there simply might not be enough supply to power the green revolution.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2018
  • To change a fin into a nanowire, one part of the fin, composed of indium phosphide, is etched away to leave indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) nanowires.
    — Richard Stevenson, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2016
  • One of the study’s clear limits is that the researchers based their calculations on high future growth rates for thin-film solar panels, which depend heavily on indium, cadmium, tellurium, and tin.
    — Alexander C. Kaufman, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The films are fabricated from transparent conductive oxides (such as indium tin oxide), graphene, or silver nanowires and do not noticeably reduce light transmission.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The process leads to a tin-gold alloy with 270 ohm-micrometer resistance and indium-gold with 190 ohm-micrometer.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Dec. 2021
  • That negates the need for TCOs incorporating rare and expensive materials like indium, and as such, brings down the cost of production.
    — New Atlas, 5 Mar. 2025
  • In the paper, scientists characterize the meteorites’ material phases as alloys of lead, tin and indium, which is the softest non-alkali metal.
    — Fox News, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Above this sits the indium-free chalcopyrite absorber, followed by a 150-nm cadmium sulfide buffer layer, a zinc oxide window layer, and a metallic grid electrode.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 Mar. 2026

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