When it is laced with other materials, the diamond could become a high-voltage, high-frequency semiconductor capable of handling communications and signal processing tasks that overwhelm the current generation of high-performance chips made of materials like gallium arsenide.
The new device isn't the first semiconductor capable of splitting water.
The concept of a semiconductor device capable of converting electrical energy directly into light energy with relatively high efficiency was Holonyak's success in making a red laser with the alloy material GaAsP pointed the way to a range of visible emitting devices.
Tomic et al. [20] have shown that the B3LYP provides an efficient and robust basis for the calculations of II I Vsemiconductors, capable of reliably predicting both the ground-state energies and the electronic structure.
For years engineers the world over have been trying to use inexpensive, carbon-rich molecules and plastics to create organic semiconductors capable of performing electronic operations at something approaching the speed of costlier technologies based on silicon.
So for now, Turner and Khaselev are working on finding cheaper semiconductors capable of accomplishing the same energetic feats.
One of the promising strategies to overcome this drawback is to couple TiO2 with other narrow band gap semiconductors capable of harvesting the photons in the visible light region [15].
Jason Mayers (Ion Torrent, USA) described an Ion Torrent device that includes a semiconductor chip capable of directly translating a chemical sequence into digital information.
BERKELEY — Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have reached a new milestone in laser physics by creating the world's smallest semiconductor laser, capable of generating visible light in a space smaller than a single protein molecule.
Currently, pHEMTs are considered among the fastest of the semiconductor devices, capable of operating up to 100 GHz.
Nakamura solved the problem in 1993 by taming gallium nitride, one of the few semiconductor materials capable of emitting light at the desired blue wavelength but notoriously difficult to fabricate into working devices.
