Recent progress in solar-blind photodetectors based on ultrawide bandgap semiconductors

L Wang, S Xu, J Yang, H Huang, Z Huo, J Li, X Xu… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ultrawide bandgap (UWBG) semiconductors, including Ga2O3, diamond, Al x Ga1–x N/AlN,
featuring bandgaps greater than 4.4 eV, hold significant promise for solar-blind ultraviolet …

Promoting energy efficiency via a self‐adaptive evaporative cooling hydrogel

S Pu, J Fu, Y Liao, L Ge, Y Zhou, S Zhang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
High temperature brings adverse impacts on the energy efficiency, and even destroys a
semiconductor device. Here, a novel and cost‐effective strategy is proposed to boost the …

First-principles theory of nonradiative carrier capture via multiphonon emission

A Alkauskas, Q Yan, CG Van de Walle - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We develop a practical first-principles methodology to determine nonradiative carrier
capture coefficients at defects in semiconductors. We consider transitions that occur via …

[HTML][HTML] Key temperature-dependent characteristics of AlGaN-based UV-C laser diode and demonstration of room-temperature continuous-wave lasing

Z Zhang, M Kushimoto, A Yoshikawa, K Aoto… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Although the pulsed operation of AlGaN-based laser diodes at UV-C wavelengths has been
confirmed in the previous studies, continuous oscillation without cooling is difficult because …

Temperature-dependent energy-level shifts of spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride

W Liu, ZP Li, YZ Yang, S Yu, Y Meng, ZA Wang… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has attracted much attention as a platform
for realizing integrated nanophotonics, and a collective effort has been focused on spin …

AlGaN devices and growth of device structures

KA Jones, TP Chow, M Wraback, M Shatalov… - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - Springer
The structure of a number of GaN/AlGaN devices and their associated material growth and
processing issues are examined in some detail, and extrapolations are made to predict what …

Deep-ultraviolet light-emitting diodes

MS Shur, R Gaska - IEEE Transactions on electron devices, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Compact solid-state deep-ultraviolet (DUV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) go far beyond
replacing conventional DUV sources such as mercury lamps. DUV LEDs enable new …

A new method for determining the bandgap in semiconductors in presence of external action taking into account lattice vibrations

UI Erkaboev, G Gulyamov, RG Rakhimov - Indian Journal of Physics, 2022 - Springer
This article proposes a new method of calculating conductivity in semiconductors, taking into
account lattice oscillations and thermal smears under the influence of temperature and …

Deep ultraviolet emission from ultra-thin GaN/AlN heterostructures

D Bayerl, SM Islam, CM Jones, V Protasenko… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We present the theoretical and experimental results for the electronic and optical properties
of atomically thin (1 and 2 monolayers) GaN quantum wells with AlN barriers. Strong …

Electronic, magnetic, optical and transport properties of wurtzite-GaN doped with rare earth (RE= Pm, Sm, and Eu): First principles approach

E Maskar, AF Lamrani, M Belaiche, A Es-Smairi… - Surfaces and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A density functional theory (DFT) and semiclassical Boltzmann transport equations (BTE)
has been used to explore the electronic, magnetic, optical and transport properties of Ga 1 …