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A review of electronic properties of insulating-, boron- and phosphorus-doped diamond is given. The main goal is, to show data in a wider context, to reveal trends and limitations with respect to carrier mobilities, conductivities, p- and…
Cubic boron nitride (c-BN) is an ultrawide-bandgap semiconductor of significant interest for high-frequency and high-power electronics applications owing to its high saturation drift velocity and high electric breakdown field. Beyond…
Aluminum nitride is a promising ultra-wide band gap semiconductor for optoelectronics and power electronics. However, its practical applications have been limited by challenges with doping and achieving high electrical conductivity. Recent…
Using first principles calculations, this work investigates the suitability of diamond/c-BN heterojunctions for high frequency, high power device applications. The key quantities of band offsets and interface charge polarization are…
Diamond is a promising material for high-power electronic applications in both the dc and rf domains. However, the predicted advantages are yet to be realized for a number of technical challenges. In particular, n-type devices have not been…
Diamond field-effect transistors (FETs) have potential applications in power electronics and high-output high-frequency amplifications. In such applications, high charge-carrier mobility is desirable for a reduced loss and high-speed…
Predicting charge transport in organic molecular crystals is notoriously challenging. Carrier mobility calculations in organic semiconductors are dominated by quantum chemistry methods based on charge hopping, which are laborious and only…
Through first-principles calculations, the phonon-limited transport properties of cubic boron-V compounds (BP, BAs and BSb) are studied. We find that the high optical phonon frequency in these compounds leads to the substantial suppression…
We study the effects of charged impurity scattering on the electronic transport properties of <110>-oriented Si nanowires in a gate-all-around geometry, where the impurity potential is screened by the gate, gate oxide and conduction band…
Diamond has attracted attention as a next-generation semiconductor because of its various exceptional properties such as a wide bandgap and high breakdown electric field. Diamond field effect transistors, for example, have been extensively…
Nitride semiconductors are ubiquitous in optoelectronic devices such as LEDs and Blu-Ray optical disks. A major limitation for further adoption of GaN in power electronics is its low hole mobility. In order to address this challenge, here…
Reported electron and hole mobilities, and their saturation velocities, in diamond span orders of magnitude across the literature. We attribute this dispersion primarily to (i) the electric-field window probed in TCT measurements, (ii) the…
Cubic boron nitride (cBN) is an ultra-wide bandgap, super-hard material with potential for extreme-temperature and -pressure applications. A proof-of-principle p-n junction using cBN was demonstrated almost three decades ago. However, to…
In this work, layered perovskite SBN was investigated in a new doped form for hole as well as electron transport layer (HTL/ETL) in perovskite solar cells. This work was targeted to conclude the effect of tin doping in lanthanum-bismuth…
Understanding the ideal limit of interfacial thermal conductance (ITC) across semiconductor heterointerfaces is crucial for optimizing heat dissipation in practical applications. By employing a highly accurate and efficient machine-learned…
Diamond, a well-known wide-bandgap insulator, becomes a low-temperature superconductor upon substitutional doping of carbon with boron. However, limited boron solubility and significant lattice disorder introduced by boron doping prevent…
Under which conditions do the electrical transport properties of one-dimensional (1D) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and 2D graphene become equivalent? We have performed atomistic calculations of the phonon-limited electrical mobility in graphene…
We report the mechanical properties of cubic boron nitride (c-BN) and diamond under the combined impact of dynamical pressure and temperature, calculated using ab initio molecular dynamics. Our study revealed a pronounced sensitivity of the…
We perform a first-principles investigation of electron-phonon interactions in silicon and germanium, uncovering distinct non-polaronic spectral and transport fingerprints in these archetypal covalent semiconductors. Using many-body…
When impurity and phonon scattering coexist, the Boltzmann equation has been solved accurately for nonlinear electron transport in a quantum wire. Based on the calculated non-equilibrium distribution of electrons in momentum space, the…