The team has just determined that its approach – involving plasma nitridation of the SiC surface, sputter deposition of SiO 2 ...

Ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors—such as diamond—are promising for next-generation electronics due to a larger energy gap ...

LEDs are another semiconductor application that relies on the band gap, but for LEDs the band gap plays a role both functional and aesthetic. When a particle or material absorbs energy ...

At the University of Glasgow’s James Watt Nanofabrication Centre, the team used surface chemistry techniques to improve the ...

These materials possess band gaps that are well-suited for solar energy conversion, with absorption coefficients that exceed those of traditional high-performance semiconductors. This discovery ...

Learn about the different R&D projects Idaho National Laboratory will conduct with Boise State University and the University ...

Wide Bandgap Semiconductors: Materials that have a larger energy gap between the valence band and conduction band, allowing them to operate at higher voltages and temperatures. Quantum Well ...

Researchers have built a deep-ultraviolet microscope to study hard-to-analyze materials like diamond, offering a new way to probe their electronic and thermal properties at the nanoscale. This ...

Nanoelectronics deal with extremely small electronic components—transistors, sensors and circuits that can fit on the tip of a needle. This technology powers our everyday lives through devices such as ...