Photosensitive Schottky Barrier Diode Based on Cu/p-SnSe Thin Film Fabricated by Thermal Evaporation

Tin Selenide (SnSe), a group IV-VI compound semiconductor material is used to fabricate various solid state devices such as memory switching devices, P-N junction diodes, Schottky barrier diodes, etc. In...

Stimuli-Responsive Phase Change Materials: Optical and Optoelectronic Applications

Stimuli-responsive materials offer a large variety of possibilities in fabrication of solid- state devices. Phase change materials (PCMs) undergo rapid and drastic changes of their optical properties upon switching from one crystallographic phase to another one. This peculiarity makes PCMs ideal candidates for a number of applications including sensors, active displays, photonic volatile and non-volatile memories for information storage and computer science and optoelectronic devices. This review analyzes different examples of PCMs, in particular germanium–antimonium tellurides and vanadium dioxide (VO2) and their applications in the above-mentioned fields, with a detailed discussion on potential, limitations and challenges.

Devices Go Solid State

This is the story of the birth of the transistor and of the growing understanding of the theory and technology of solid state devices. The transistor was invented at Bell Laboratories by William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. They received the Nobel Prize in 1956.The next advance was putting more and more units on a substrate, initiating the age of integrated circuits. Moore’s Law in its original form states that the number of transistors on a substrate will double every year. As the price of computers using transistors plummeted, the number of computers sold rose fast.

A Hybrid Coarse-Grained Model for Structure, Solvation and Assembly of Lipid-Like Peptides

Reconstituted photosynthetic proteins which are activated upon exposure to solar energy hold enormous potential for powering future solid state devices and solar cells. The functionality and integration of these proteins...