Nitride semiconductors are attractive because they can be environmentally benign, comprised of abundant elements and possess favourable electronic properties. However, those currently commercialized are mostly limited to gallium nitride and its alloys, despite the rich composition space of nitrides. Here we report the screening of ternary zinc nitride semiconductors using first-principles calcu...

Marked improvements in the crystalline quality of GaN enabled the production of GaN-based p−n junction blue-light-emitting and violet-laser diodes. These robust, energetically efficient devices have opened up a new frontier in optoelectronics. A new arena of wide-bandgap semiconductors has been developed due to marked improvements in the crystalline quality of nitrides. In this article, we revi...

Wide bandgap semiconductors have expanded the scope of device applications beyond those of silicon and gallium arsenide. Exploitation of wide bandgap semiconductors holds promise for revolutionary improvements in the cost, size, weight and performance of a broad range of military and commercial microelectronic and opto-electronic systems. The inherent material properties of silicon carbide, gal...

A decade ago, atom probe tomography (APT) was applied almost exclusively to the study of metals, since the study of materials with lower conductivities, such as semiconductors, was considered pragmatically to be very difficult. The advent of commercially-available laser-pulsed APT systems has since enabled the increasingly widespread application of APT to semiconductors, with particularly notab...

Since their inception, micro-size light emitting diode (µLED) arrays based on III-nitride semiconductors have emerged as a promising technology for a range of applications. This paper provides an overview on a decade progresses on realizing III-nitride µLED based high voltage single-chip AC/DC-LEDs without power converters to address the key compatibility issue between LEDs and AC power grid in...

Polaron binding energy and effective mass are calculated for semiconductors with wurtzite crystalline structure from the first order electron-phonon corrections to the self-energy. A recently introduced Fröhlich-like electron-phonon interaction Hamiltonian which accounts for the LO and TO polarizations mixing due to the anisotropy is used in the calculation. The polaronic damping rates are eval...