Building next-generation semiconductors and low-power electronic devices requires precisely stacking materials with different ...

Organic semiconductors encompass a class of carbon-based materials whose π-conjugated frameworks enable the transport of charge carriers under an applied electric field. These materials range from ...

Semiconductor surfaces can generally be studied only with considerable experimental effort, for example, in an ultrahigh ...

Researchers at Fraunhofer IAF have made a breakthrough in the field of semiconductor materials: With aluminum yttrium nitride (AlYN), they have succeeded in fabricating and characterizing a new and ...

Silicon is the best-known semiconductor material. However, controlled nanostructuring drastically alters the material's properties. Using a specially developed etching apparatus, a team has now ...

Semiconductor heterojunctions arise when two dissimilar semiconductor materials are brought into intimate contact, forming an interface at which the conduction and valence bands align in ...

Introducing a new computational method that predicts the electronic properties of semiconductors more accurately, including materials that existing methods can sometimes misclassify as metals.

Physicists have developed a novel approach to maintain special quantum characteristics, even in 3D materials, with potential applications in optical systems and advanced computing. There is a big ...