A long-sought method to grow defect-free silicon carbide (SiC) single crystals for use as semiconductor wafers has been developed by a team of Japanese researchers. The technology advance means that ...

Scientists create perovskite film semiconductors at room temperature using lasers, which is a revolution for chips and solar ...

A long-standing objective in materials research is to effectively heal fabrication defects or to remove pre-existing or environmentally induced damage in materials. Silicon carbide (SiC) is a ...

Perovskite solar cells have garnered widespread attention as a low-cost, high-efficiency alternative to conventional silicon ...

For materials scientists, understanding the atomic structure of a material, revealing defects, or characterizing the chemical and physical processes that occur during the creation of material, are key ...

Researchers in quantum mechanics believe they’ve found a standard way to assess the viability of quantum memory in silicon chips — meaning existing components can be used as the fabric for a future ...

Solid-state spin color centers are of utmost importance for the application of quantum technologies, especially the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. Since the detection of individual diamond ...

Silicon carbide (SiC) is a crystalline material utilized to develop a wide array of electronic devices, including transistors and other high-power, high-frequency, and high-temperature devices. As ...

(Nanowerk News) Electronic devices such as integrated circuits work because of the defects in the underlying semiconductor material, namely silicon. Defects also control the electrical properties of ...

Graphene is often considered a ‘wonder material’ for electronics applications. 1 However, while graphene has been proposed as a foundation for making advanced electronics that can be highly ...