Development of semiconducting ScN

B Biswas, B Saha - Physical Review Materials, 2019‏ - APS
Since the 1960s advances in electronic and optoelectronic device technologies have been
primarily orchestrated by III-V semiconductors, which have led to an age of consumer …

Non-equilibrium dynamics, materials and structures for hot carrier solar cells: a detailed review

D König, Y Yao, B Puthen-Veettil… - … Science and Technology, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Since their advent around the start of the millennium, hot carrier solar cells came into the
focus of a broader research community as one of the so-called third generation photovoltaic …

[HTML][HTML] Optical constants and band gap of wurtzite Al1− xScxN/Al2O3 prepared by magnetron sputter epitaxy for scandium concentrations up to x= 0.41

M Baeumler, Y Lu, N Kurz, L Kirste… - Journal of Applied …, 2019‏ - pubs.aip.org
Wurtzite Al 1− x Sc x N thin films with scandium Sc concentrations up to x= 0.41 were
prepared by reactive pulsed DC magnetron co-sputtering at heater temperatures between …

ScGaN and ScAlN: emerging nitride materials

MA Moram, S Zhang - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2014‏ - pubs.rsc.org
This review addresses the recent development and future prospects for Sc-based III-nitride
alloys in energy-efficient device applications. Wurtzite-structure ScAlN and ScGaN alloys are …

Optical and transport measurement and first-principles determination of the ScN band gap

R Deng, BD Ozsdolay, PY Zheng, SV Khare, D Gall - Physical Review B, 2015‏ - APS
The electronic structure of scandium nitride is determined by combining results from optical
and electronic transport measurements with first-principles calculations. Hybrid functional …

Bandgap in Al1− xScxN

R Deng, SR Evans, D Gall - Applied Physics Letters, 2013‏ - pubs.aip.org
Aluminum scandium nitride (Al 1− x Sc x N) layers deposited by reactive magnetron co-
sputtering on sapphire 0001 substrates at 850 C are epitaxial single-crystals for x≤ 0.20 …

Thermoelectric properties of epitaxial ScN films deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering onto MgO (001) substrates

PV Burmistrova, J Maassen, T Favaloro… - Journal of Applied …, 2013‏ - pubs.aip.org
Epitaxial ScN (001) thin films were grown on MgO (001) substrates by dc reactive magnetron
sputtering. The deposition was performed in an Ar/N 2 atmosphere at 2× 10− 3 Torr at a …

Dominant scattering mechanisms in limiting the electron mobility of scandium nitride

S Rudra, D Rao, S Poncé, B Saha - Nano Letters, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Electron mobility in nitride semiconductors is limited by electron–phonon, defect, grain-
boundary, and dislocation scatterings. Scandium nitride (ScN), an emerging rocksalt indirect …

Thermal conductivity of (Zr, W) N/ScN metal/semiconductor multilayers and superlattices

V Rawat, YK Koh, DG Cahill, TD Sands - Journal of Applied Physics, 2009‏ - pubs.aip.org
The cross-plane thermal conductivities of metal/semiconductor multilayers and epitaxial
superlattices have been measured as a function of period by time-domain thermoreflectance …

Surface and bulk electronic structure of investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy and optical absorption spectroscopy

HA Al-Brithen, AR Smith, D Gall - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2004‏ - APS
ScN (001) 1× 1 surfaces have been prepared by growing ScN on MgO (001) using radio
frequency molecular beam epitaxy. In situ ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling …