Pseudobinary heterostructural alloys of ZnO with MgO or CdO are studied by composing the system locally of clusters with varying ratio of cations. We investigate fourfold wurtzite structure and sixfold rocksalt structure coordination of the atoms. By means of density-functional theory, we study a total number of 256 16-atom clusters divided into 22 classes for the wurtzite structure and 16 clas...

Buseckite (IMA 2011-070), (Fe,Zn,Mn)S, is the Fe-dominant analog of wurtzite, a new member of the wurtzite group discovered in Zakłodzie, and an ungrouped enstatite-rich achondrite. The type material occurs as single-crystal grains (4–20 μm in size) in contact with two or more of enstatite, plagioclase, troilite, tridymite, quartz, and sinoite. Low-Ni iron, martensitic iron, schreibersite, keil...

Wurtzite Zinc-Oxide (w-ZnO) is a wide bandgap semiconductor that holds promise in power electronics applications, where heat dissipation is of critical importance. However, large discrepancies exist in the literature on the thermal conductivity of w-ZnO. In this paper, we determine the thermal conductivity of w-ZnO using first-principles lattice dynamics and compare it to that of wurtzite Galli...

The highly organized structure of M13 bacteriophage was used as an evolved biological template for the nucleation and orientation of semiconductor nanowires. To create this organized template, peptides were selected by using a pIII phage display library for their ability to nucleate ZnS or CdS nanocrystals. The successful peptides were expressed as pVIII fusion proteins into the crystalline cap...

The theoretical models for calculations of band structure of wurtzite InN have been studied. Several models including nearly free electron model, pseudopotional method, Tight-Binding moethod and k·p method will be discussed. Currently most InN epitaxial films grown on GaN or sapphire substrate have wurtzite structure. To study the symmetry properties of the electron wave function in wurtzite st...

Bulk crystals of ZnS usually take the zinc blende structure. However, the vapor deposited one-dimensional ZnS nanostructures normally take the metastable wurtzite structure. This Letter investigates the conditions under which the formed phase can be controlled between zinc blende and wurtzite in nanomaterials synthesis. The formation of pure zinc blende structured ZnS nanobelts is related not o...

Binary III-N nitride semiconductors with wurtzite crystal structure such as GaN and AlN have been long used in many practical applications ranging from optoelectronic to telecommunication. The structurally related ZnGeN2 or ZnSnN2 derived the parent binary compounds by cation mutation (elemental substitution) recently attracted attention, but ternary materials are mostly limited II-IV-N2 compos...

An approach has been developed to produce CdTe films with a high proportion of the metastable wurtzite phase. It involves the use of pulsed laser deposition to produce CdTe nanoparticles which are then collected on a substrate. Electron microscopy indicates that the nanoparticles produced have a relatively minor fraction of the wurtzite phase coexisting with the stable zinc blende phase. If the...

Quasiparticle self-consistent $GW$ calculations are presented for the band structures of $\mathrm{Li}\mathrm{Ga}{\mathrm{O}}_{2}$ and $\mathrm{Na}\mathrm{Ga}{\mathrm{O}}_{2}$ in orthorhombic $Pna{2}_{1}$ tetrahedrally coordinated crystal structures, which closely related to wurtzite structure ZnO. Symmetry labeling bands near gap is carried out, effective-mass tensors extracted conduction-band ...