(Courtesy: Christine Daniloff/MIT) Cubic boron arsenide is one of the best semiconductors ... Silicon has dominated the electronics industry for decades. It is relatively easy to purify into a ...

Boron fits into the crystal lattice just like silicon atoms ... refers to the layered physical structure of devices such as metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors, or MOSFETs.

Computational simulations predicted that BAs might buck the trend, so Hu decided to investigate how the semiconductor ... colleagues revealed that the lattice structure of BAs propagates heat ...

Figure 2: Band structures ... silicon. We have shown how materials design can yield several candidate materials which simultaneously possess three desirable materials properties: a very close ...

Typical solid-state semiconductor devices exploit the bulk properties of multiple atoms in a lattice ... from silicon, with leads built from single crystals of silicon deposited on a boron substrate.

Additionally, a honeycomb 2-D boron lattice may enable superconductivity. In the well-known high Tc superconductor, MgB2, the crystal structure consists of boron planes with intercalated Mg layers ...

Semiconductors ... type impurities (aluminum, boron and gallium) for increasing their electrical conductivity. Nitrogen substitutes the C in the SiC lattice, while phosphorous, aluminum and boron ...

A team of researchers has discovered an effective method for removing lattice defects from crystals. A team of researchers from Osaka University, the Institute for High Pressure Physics and the ...

The material achieved that triumph when physicists in France crammed unprecedented numbers of boron atoms ... the same journal issue. Silicon’s characteristics as a semiconductor—a substance ...

Additionally, a honeycomb 2D boron lattice may enable the superconductivity behavior. Since in the well-known high Tc superconductor, MgB2, the crystal structure consists of boron planes with ...