Many semiconductors are based on silicon, with atoms of other elements ... with five or more electrons in their valence shell. Readily available phosphorus is a common choice.

Ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors—such as diamond—are promising for next-generation electronics due to a larger energy gap between the valence and conduction bands, allowing them to handle higher ...

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 ...

As great as silicon is for semiconductor applications, it has one weakness in that using it for lasers isn’t very practical. Never say never though, as it turns out that you can now grow ...

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

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Researchers have developed advanced terahertz photodetectors containing 'living' microelectrodes. A vanadium dioxide (VO2) layer was precisely deposited on a silicon substrate. Temperature regulation ...

Compound semiconductors outperform silicon in terms of power efficiency and heat resistance, making them well-suited for next-generation applications. For example, in telecommunications ...

To improve the durability of tin perovskite, a method called Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) has been proposed that introduces large ...