Discovery of non-toxic semiconductors with a direct band gap in the near-infrared New compound may replace toxic mercury cadmium telluride and gallium arsenide in near-infrared devices Date: March ...

The band gap is a crucial property of semiconductors that significantly impacts their use in various devices, including solar cells, transistors, and photocatalysts. Professor Quentin Ramasse ...

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 ...

More information: Taichi Masuda et al, Neural network ensembles for band gap prediction, Computational Materials Science (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2024.113327 Provided by Kyoto University ...

Osaka researchers synthesized a fluorinated electron-acceptor for use in organic semiconductors. The high electronegativity of the fluorine substituents enhanced the electron-accepting properties ...

The band gap is a crucial property of semiconductors that significantly impacts their use in various devices, including solar cells, transistors, and photocatalysts. Professor Quentin Ramasse, ...

Mind the band gap! -- researchers create new nanoscale forms of elementary semiconductor with tunable electronic properties Date: May 22, 2025 Source: University of Nottingham Summary: Researchers ...

The band gap is a crucial property of semiconductors that significantly impacts their use in various devices, including solar cells, transistors, and photocatalysts.