Examples include gallium
nitride for light - emitting diodes and silicon for solar cells.
«New class of materials for organic electronics: Joint project details charge transport in polymeric carbon
nitride for first time.»
The big players were mostly ignoring gallium
nitride for a host of what seemed to be good reasons.
Not exact matches
In 2011,
for instance, scientists devised an «invisibility carpet,» which conceals objects under etched layers of silicon oxide and silicon
nitride.
«This model enabled the state to quickly adjust to changes in a very dynamic industry and make the facility available to NexGen
for its production of gallium
nitride semiconductor devices, modules and systems.»
It has a 3.25 - inch blade with a black titanium
nitride coating
for amazing corrosion resistance.
Because of their relative radiation hardness, gallium arsenide - and gallium
nitride - based HEMTs are desirable
for space application.
To get funds, Ill have to keep working on
nitride devices, because I am famous
for nitride devices.»
«At that time, it was crazy
for people to try gallium
nitride,» he acknowledges.
The density of defects in the best gallium
nitride crystals, at 1.010 dislocations per square centimeter, was ten million times higher than what was believed necessary
for commercial success, especially in a laser.
In 1999, Nichias products accounted
for 40 percent of the $ 300 - million - a-year market
for nitride LEDs, according to Strategies Unlimited of Mountain View, Calif..
Although producing the conditions required to grow the substances in bulk remains a challenge, Janik and others are working on synthesizing wurtzite boron
nitride and lonsdaleite to pave the way
for commercial use.
Nanowires
for LEDs are made up of an inner core of gallium
nitride (GaN) and a layer of indium - gallium -
nitride (InGaN) on the outside, both of which are semiconducting materials.
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Manchester, U.K.; Imperial College, London; University of California San Diego; and the National Institute of Material Science (NIMS), Japan, have demonstrated that confined surface phonon polaritons within hexagonal boron
nitride (hBN) exhibit unique metamaterial properties that enable novel nanoscale optical devices
for use in optical communications, super-resolution imaging, and improved infrared cameras and detectors.
Devices made of silicon carbide and gallium
nitride — conventional semiconductors — hold promise
for extended high - temperature operation but are still not cost - effective
for high volume applications.
PEI coated with hexagonal boron
nitride (hBN) nanosheets significantly outperforms competitive polymers at operating temperatures needed
for electric vehicles and aerospace power applications.
First - principles calculations determined that the electron barrier, established at the interface of the PEI / hexagonal boron -
nitride structure and the metal electrodes applied to the structure to deliver, current is significantly higher than typical metal electrode - dielectric polymer contacts, making it more difficult
for charges from the electrode to be injected into the film.
And if the combination of graphene / boron
nitride is applied on copper
for contact with the external world?
While III -
nitride VCSELs are still considered to be in their infancy, they «show great potential
for many applications that require highly directional light with a high - output power density — including heads - up displays, automotive headlights, visible light data transmission and communication, a.k.a. «LiFi,» and pico projectors,» he said.
On a separate silicon chip, they grow a thin, flexible film of silicon
nitride, upon which they deposit the superconductor niobium
nitride in a pattern useful
for photon detection.
A simple new electron - beam multilayer deposition technique
for creating intracavity contacts — an important component of gallium
nitride - based (III -
nitride) vertical - cavity surface - emitting lasers (VCSELs)-- not only yields intriguing optoelectronic properties but also paves the way
for others entering this realm of research.
Constructed of layers of atomically thin materials, including transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), graphene, and boron
nitride, the ultra-thin LEDs showing all - electrical single photon generation could be excellent on - chip quantum light sources
for a wide range of photonics applications
for quantum communications and networks.
«Hydrogen from sunlight — but as a dark reaction: Generation, storage, and time - delayed release of electrons in graphitic carbon
nitride material
for artificial photosynthesis.»
Scientists are beginning to find practical uses
for materials such as hexagonal boron
nitride that manipulate light in usual ways.
So there have already been numerous attempts to employ polymeric carbon
nitrides as cost - effective photocatalysts
for solar - powered water splitting.
«We use a proprietary platform called ultra-silicon-rich
nitride, with a material composition of seven parts silicon, three parts nitrogen, with the large nonlinearity and photon efficiency needed
for high gain amplification, through the efficient transfer of photons from a pump to the signal.
«The results demonstrate the ultra-silicon-rich
nitride platform to be extremely promising
for highly efficient nonlinear optics applications, particularly in the field of CMOS photonics leveraging existing electronics infrastructure,» says Dr. Doris Ng, Scientist III at the A * STAR Data Storage Institute.
For a number of reasons, gallium
nitride is a good material in which to make this happen, but it also has drawbacks — due to the way it's manufactured, you end up with a material that's very irregular at the atomic level.
The nanotechnology team at Deakin's Institute
for Frontier Materials has been working on boron
nitride nanomaterials
for two decades and has been internationally recognized
for its work in the development of boron
nitride nanotubes and nanosheets.
In hopes of limiting the disastrous environmental effects of massive oil spills, materials scientists from Drexel University and Deakin University, in Australia, have teamed up to manufacture and test a new material, called a boron
nitride nanosheet, that can absorb up to 33 times its weight in oils and organic solvents — a trait that could make it an important technology
for quickly mitigating these costly accidents.
Many members of the team had previously reported uranium
nitride and oxo complexes where the molecules are essentially the same except
for swapping a single nitrogen atom
for an oxygen.
The researchers compared the effect of two different substrates on the growth of the phosphorene nanoflake — a copper substrate, commonly used
for growing graphene, which bonds with the phosphorene through strong chemical processes, and a hexagonal hydrogen boron
nitride (h - BN) substrate that couples with the phosphorene via weak van der Waals bonds.
Blue gallium
nitride LEDs from LEDtronics cost between $ 2 and $ 2.50, while Cree Research sells silicon carbide LEDs
for 49 cents each.
Electrochemical tests of the separate ingredients showed that molybdenum carbide is effective
for converting H2O to H2, but not stable in acidic solution, while molybdenum
nitride is corrosion - resistant but not efficient
for hydrogen production.
In this experiment, Drndić and her colleagues worked with a different material — silicon
nitride — rather than attempting to craft single - atom - thick graphene membranes
for nanopores.
This new approach — of encapsulating graphene constrictions between layers of boron
nitride — allowed
for exceptionally clean samples, and thus highly accurate measurements.
Monolayer - thick sheets of hexagonal boron
nitride, aka «white graphene,» could be the perfect ultra-thin partner
for graphene
Kim and colleagues first isolated a sample of pure graphene by protecting it between layers of hexagonal boron
nitride, an insulating, transparent crystal also known as «white graphene»
for its similar properties and atomic structure.
Recently, monolayer gallium
nitride (ML GaN) with honeycomb structure was successfully fabricated in experiments, generating enormous research interest
for its promising applications in nano - and opto - electronics.
For this experiment, Wang constructed bilayer graphene encapsulated in a hexagonal lattice of boron
nitride.
«Various hexagonal boron
nitride single crystal morphology — triangle to hexagon — formulations have been mentioned in theoretical studies, but
for the first time we have demonstrated and explained the process,» says postdoctoral associate Yijing Stehle, of ORNL» [We created] a more gentle, controllable way to release the reactant into the furnace and [figured] out how to take advantage of inner furnace conditions.
Monolayer - thick sheets of hexagonal boron
nitride, aka «white graphene,» could be the perfect ultra-thin partner
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It is based on boron
nitride, a graphene - like 2D material, and was selected because of its capability to manipulate infrared light on extremely small length scales, which could be applied
for the development of miniaturized chemical sensors or
for heat management in nanoscale optoelectronic devices.
An array of 96 iron atoms on a copper
nitride surface, assembled using an STM and used to write a byte, demonstrates how small magnetic storage could shrink and may lead to novel nanomaterials
for quantum computers.
Two - dimensional materials (2DMs) such as graphene, hexagonal boron
nitride, silicene and others, are currently amongst the most intensively studied classes of materials that hold great promise
for future applications in many technological areas.
Synthesis under high pressure provides a reliable means to control growth of certain other materials (e.g., diamond and cubic boron
nitride), so the Strobel team decided to pursue that approach
for clathrates.
BN (boron
nitride) was chosen as the base
for new hybrid nanoparticles because it is chemically inert and biocompatible and has low relative density.
Particular attention was also paid to the bearings
for the forged and
nitride - hardened crankshaft, which weighs in at 24.6 kilograms.
He was a research scientist
for 10 years at Bell Labs, working on nontrivial topics such as Molecular Beam Epitaxy, high - temperature superconductors, gallium
nitride and — here's where we come in — electronic publishing.
Parish's team along with engineers from CSIRO have used the gallium
nitride to build a single sensor chip that can detect many different ions without the need
for a reference electrode that would add to its size and weight.