[...]. No semiconductor can work at 500 deg C.
Well...none of the semiconductors we use at lower temperatures, but
that's not surprising.
I'd be surprised if there were no materials that would work as
semiconductors at that sort of temperature. (Finding them would be
comparatively difficult for us, to be sure.)
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