UC Irvine-led research reveals that the optical ... a widely used and essential semiconductor, can be enhanced by an astonishing four orders of magnitude. This breakthrough holds great promise ...

The development, subject of a paper recently published as the cover story in the journal ACS Nano, hinges on the UC Irvine researchers’ conversion of pure silicon from an indirect to a direct bandgap ...

Sunnyvale, CA, is chosen as the site for the new CHIPS for America Design and Collaboration Facility to bolster semiconductor ...

However, being an indirect semiconductor, its utilization in optoelectronics has been hindered by poor optical properties," said senior author Dmitry Fishman, UC Irvine adjunct professor of chemistry.

Irvine (UC Irvine) team's study is based on previous work related to the transformation of pure silicon from an indirect bandgap semiconductor to a direct bandgap one by altering its interaction ...

Researchers have come up with a way to turn silicon into a direct bandgap semiconductor, opening the door to the manufacture of ultrathin silicon solar cells.

“In direct bandgap semiconductor materials, electrons transition from the valence band to the conduction band. This process requires only a change in energy; it’s an efficient transfer,” noted lead ...