Techniques for Band Gap Engineering vary, including doping, the introduction of impurities into a semiconductor to alter its electrical properties; strain engineering, where stress is applied to ...

The course covers fundamental solid-state and semiconductor physics relevant for understanding electronic devices. Topics include quantum mechanics of electrons in solids, crystalline structures, band ...

That's the kind of technology that researchers at Kyoto University have developed for the band gap of semiconductor materials. The work is published in the journal Computational Materials Science.

This course introduces basic concepts of the quantum theory of solids and presents the theory describing the ... Energy bands in reciprocal lattice, Energy band structures of metal and insulator, ...