The atomic and electronic structures of semiconductor heterostructures including steps, misfit dislocations and interface disorder are studied by using the densityfunctional tight-binding (TB) method. Atomic structures of misfit dislocations both edge type 1/2 <110> (001) and 60°dislocations in the semiconductor heterostructures, like Si-Ge superlattices and GaAs/Si systems are studied by using...

Diverse parallel stitched 2D heterostructures, including metal-semiconductor, semiconductor-semiconductor, and insulator-semiconductor, are synthesized directly through selective "sowing" of aromatic molecules as the seeds in the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. The methodology enables the large-scale fabrication of lateral heterostructures, which offers tremendous potential for its appl...

Data on assignees of patenters are used to analyze the mobility of semiconductor inventors. A model of the entry and staffing of spinoffs of incumbent producers is developed to explain the higher mobility of semiconductor inventors in Silicon Valley. Exploiting data on the origins of semiconductor producers with larger sales, we argue that the greater mobility of semiconductor inventors in Sili...

With the advancement of nanoscale semiconductor technology,semiconductor optical amplifiers are used to amplify and process all-optical signals. Inthis paper, with the aim of calculating the gain of quantum dot semiconductor opticalamplifier (QD-SOA), two groups of rate equations and the optical signal propagatingequation are used in the active layer of the device. For t...

biocl microflowers were synthesized using bismuth nitrate pentahydrate and sodium chloride by microwave (mw) assisted synthesis method for 23 minutes at 180 w. scanning electron microscopy (sem) studies revealed a unique morphology of flower-like assemblies comprised of nanosheets. the x-ray diffraction (xrd) pattern showed that a highly pure and crystalline phase has been obtained. the energy ...

molecular sieves mcm-41 were synthesized from rice husk ash (rha) as alternative sources of silica. the material was synthesized by a room temperature method from a gel with the molar composition sio2: 1.6ea: 0.215hdtmabr: 325h2o with ph correction. the cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (ctmabr) was used as a structure template. nanocomposite containing 5.0 and 10.0 wt.% of cu was synthesized unde...

li2ni8o10 and limn2o4 nanoparticles as cathode materials of lithium ion battery, were successfully synthesized using lithium acetate, nickel and manganese acetate as li, ni and mn sources and stearic acid as a complexing reagent. the structure of the obtained products were characterized by ft-ir and xrd. the shape, size and distribution of the li2ni8o10 and limn2o4 nanoparticles were observed b...

lu3+/yb3+ and lu3+/er3+ co-doped sb2se3 nanomaterials were synthesized by a co-reduction method in hydrothermal condition. powder xrd patterns indicate that the lnxln′xsb2-2xse3 ln: lu3+/yb3+ and lu3+/er3+ crystals (x= 0.00-0.04) are isostructural with sb2se3. the cell parameters were increased for compounds upon increasing the dopant content (x). sem and tem images show that co-doping of lu3+/...

A major problem in an isolated DC/DC converters operating at high switching frequencies is the attendant switching losses in the semiconductor devices. This can be reduced by introducing either zero-voltage switching (ZVS) or zero-current switching (ZCS) of the semiconductor switches. This paper deals with the simulation, design, fabrication and experimental evaluation of a novel soft-switching...