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The telluride used in the terahertz generation and detection is

  1. cadmium zinc telluride

  2. hydrogen telluride

  3. indium(III) telluride

  4. lead telluride
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Cadmium zinc telluride, (CdZnTe) is an alloy of cadmium telluride and zinc telluride. A direct bandgap semiconductor, is used in a variety of applications, including radiation detectors, photorefractive gratings, electro-optic modulators, solar cells, and terahertz generation and detection.

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