Imagine you're cooking. You're trying to develop a unique flavor by mixing spices you've never combined before. Predicting ...

Researchers at Kyoto University have developed a machine learning model integrated with neural networks to predict the band ...

Researchers from the University at Buffalo, Central South University, Shandong Normal University, Sungkyunkwan University, TU ...

Research team led by Dr. Seo at KERI develops radiation resistance evaluation technology for SiC power semiconductors.

Silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors are just such a technology, and have already begun to revolutionise the industry. A graph showing the relationship between band gap and temperature for various ...

The US, China and Japan are working on research and development in gallium oxide crystal growth and productionizing gallium ...

By contrast, conductors have a band gap that is narrow to nonexistent. Semiconductors are sometimes considered to be insulators with narrow band gaps. For a visual explanation of N-type versus P ...

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 ...

However, this would only be possible by using wide-band-gap semiconductors, which have not been considered for solar cells used for land-based applications because their band gaps are too large.

In semiconductors, valence electrons occupy energy bands, with the valence band (lower energy) and the conduction band (higher energy) separated by an energy gap. Electrons in lower energy levels can ...