Playing with carbon and silicon at the nanoscale

P Mélinon, B Masenelli, F Tournus, A Perez - Nature materials, 2007 - nature.com
Because of its superior properties silicon carbide is one of the most promising materials for
power electronics, hard-and biomaterials. In the solid phase, the electronic and optical …

Tin-based group IV semiconductors: New platforms for opto-and microelectronics on silicon

J Kouvetakis, J Menendez… - Annu. Rev. Mater …, 2006 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract New classes of Sn-containing group IV semiconductors are described. Novel CVD
routes lead to growth of a broad range of Ge1− y Sn y alloys and compounds directly on Si …

Giant and composition-dependent optical bowing coefficient in GaAsN alloys

SH Wei, A Zunger - Physical review letters, 1996 - APS
Using first-principles supercell calculations we find a giant (7–16 eV) and composition-
dependent optical bowing coefficient in GaAs 1− x N x alloys. We show that both effects are …

Optical critical points of thin-film alloys: A comparative study

VR D'costa, CS Cook, AG Birdwell, CL Littler… - Physical Review B …, 2006 - APS
The E 0, E 0+ Δ 0, E 1, E 1+ Δ 1, E 0′, and E 2 optical transitions have been measured in
Ge 1− y Sn y alloys (y< 0.2) using spectroscopic ellipsometry and photoreflectance. The …

Enhanced mobility MOSFET device and method

JJ Candelaria - US Patent 5,683,934, 1997 - Google Patents
An enhanced mobility MOSFET device (10) comprises a channel layer (12) formed on a
monocrystalline silicon layer (11). The channel layer (12) comprises an alloy of silicon and a …

Electronic structure approach for complex silicas

AA Demkov, J Ortega, OF Sankey, MP Grumbach - Physical Review B, 1995 - APS
We develop a theoretical electronic structure based approach suitable for the study of
complex silicas, and apply it to three different silica polymorphs. The method is first …

Band engineering of carbon nitride monolayers by N-type, P-type, and isoelectronic do** for photocatalytic applications

M Makaremi, S Grixti, KT Butler, GA Ozin… - ACS applied materials …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Since hydrogen fuel involves the highest energy density among all fuels, production of this
gas through the solar water splitting approach has been suggested as a green remedy for …

Wide-band-gap Si in open fourfold-coordinated clathrate structures

GB Adams, M O'Keeffe, AA Demkov, OF Sankey… - Physical Review B, 1994 - APS
The energetics and band structures of the elemental semiconductor Si in two fourfold-
coordinated clathrate structures have been studied. For the Si (34) and Si (46) structures we …

[BOOK][B] Silicon Heterostructure Handbook: Materials, Fabrication, Devices, Circuits and Applications of SiGe and Si Strained-Layer Epitaxy

JD Cressler, S Monfray, G Freeman, D Friedman… - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
An extraordinary combination of material science, manufacturing processes, and innovative
thinking spurred the development of SiGe heterojunction devices that offer a wide array of …

Practical application of zone-folding concepts in tight-binding calculations

TB Boykin, G Klimeck - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2005 - APS
Modern supercell algorithms, such as those used in treating arrays of quantum dots or alloy
calculations, are often founded upon local basis representations. Such local basis …