Nitride semiconductors have emerged as pivotal materials in solar energy conversion due to their versatile electronic properties and the opportunity they offer to exploit earth‐abundant elements.

In labs focused on clean energy, a quiet shift is underway. Instead of treating carbon dioxide as a dead-end waste gas, ...

Highly enhanced UV absorption and light emission of monolayer WS2 through hybridization with Ti2N MXene quantum dots and g-C3N4 quantum dots This work represents a significant advancement in the field ...

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 31, 2024 — By creating a new way for light and matter to interact, researchers at the University of California, Irvine have enabled the manufacturing of ultrathin silicon solar ...

UC Irvine-led research reveals that the optical properties of materials can be dramatically enhanced—not by changing the materials themselves, but by giving the light new properties. The researchers ...

Scientists create perovskite film semiconductors at room temperature using lasers, which is a revolution for chips and solar ...

A spinel-type sulfide semiconductor that can emit light from violet to orange at room temperature has been developed by researchers at Science Tokyo, overcoming the efficiency limitations of current ...

From transition metal dichalcogenides to boron nitride and beyond, these ultrathin systems have found relevance in fields ranging from photonics to quantum computing. Yet despite this momentum, the ...