Important material properties can be explained at the level of quantum physics - for example, whether a material conducts electricity or not. Analysing such quantum states has now revealed that there ...

The work by researchers in the Center for Advanced Semiconductor Technologies could lead to energy-efficient microelectronics ...

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science has successfully developed a high-quality compound semiconductor material for ultra-sensitive short-wave infrared (SWIR) sensors. The study is ...

Some materials let electricity pass through them easily. These materials are known as electrical conductors. Metal is used in plugs to allow electricity to transfer from the wall socket ...

Wurtzite semiconductors have hexagonal crystal symmetry with distorted tetrahedral bonding. The effective quantum mechanical Hamiltonian of the semiconductor crystal, which determines the allowed ...

Abstract: Measurements of the equivalent parallel conductance of metal-insulator-semiconductor ... of states is found across the band gap of the silicon. Capture cross sections for holes and electrons ...