Diseño computacional de semiconductores de brecha de banda directa que coinciden con la celosía del silicio

P Zhang1, V H Crespi, E Chang

  • 1Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, 104 Davey Lab, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-6300, USA.

Nature
|May 9, 2001
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores diseñaron de forma computacional nuevas aleaciones de semiconductores de brecha de banda directa. Estos materiales coinciden con el silicio en celosía, lo que permite una emisión de luz eficiente para la fotónica de silicio integrada.

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