The properties of bulk semiconductors can be modified by doping, the intentional incorporation of impurities. The same method applied to semiconductor nanocrystals has had only limited success.

Naval Research Laboratory. (2005, July 8). Discovery Of 'Doping' Mechanism In Semiconductor Nanocrystals. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2005 / 07 ...

Controlled concentration of hydrogen atoms during the production of intrinsic zinc oxide is thus the key to the routine use of ZnO as semiconductor. Doping activates the semiconductor. Doping, ...

In semiconductor technology, doping refers to the intentional introduction of impurities (also known as dopants) into a layer or into the intrinsic semiconductor of an integrated circuit. These ...

Semiconductor doping is a critical process in the fabrication of semiconductors and has a significant impact on their electrical conductivity. By adding specific impurities to a pure semiconductor ...

More information: Seunghyun Ji et al, Nucleation‐Controlled Doping of II–VI Semiconductor Nanocrystals Mediated by Magic‐Sized Clusters, Small Science (2024). DOI: 10.1002/smsc.202400300.

Although similar room-temperature dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMSs) have been made before, they were all semiconductors doped with copper. This new carbon-doped DMS is interesting because it could ...