Scientists have discovered a potentially promising infrared LED and infrared detector component. This compound -- composed of calcium, silicon and oxygen -- is cheap to produce and non-toxic. Many of ...

Researchers have demonstrated that by using a semiconductor with flexible bonds, the material can be molded into various structures using nano containers, without altering its composition. The ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) In the world of 2D materials, single-layer honeycomb crystals like graphene and its elemental analogues – silicene, germanene and stanene – attract much attention due to their ...

The field of semiconductor materials continues to expand as researchers develop and refine materials with increasingly tailored electronic and optical properties. Semiconductors are characterised by ...

Techniques for Band Gap Engineering vary, including doping, the introduction of impurities into a semiconductor to alter its electrical properties; strain engineering, where stress is applied to ...

This video explains how semiconductors work and how their electrical properties are controlled using band gaps and doping. Semiconductors are materials that conduct electricity under specific ...

U.S. researchers have conducted detailed balance calculations to show the ultimate potential of underwater solar cells. According to their findings, the devices could theoretically produce useful ...

Transistors made from single-atom layers of semiconductor emit light when stimulated by an electrical current, according to new work by researchers in the UK, US and Germany. The discovery that 2D ...

Researchers have demonstrated that by using a semiconductor with flexible bonds, the material can be moulded into various structures using nano containers, without altering its composition, the ...