Kinetics, thermodynamics, and catalysis of the cation incorporation into GeO2, SnO2, and (SnxGe1−x)O2 during suboxide molecular beam epitaxy by Wenshan Chen, Kingsley Egbo, Joe Kler, Andreas Falkenstein, Jonas Lähnemann, Oliver Bierwagen

“…Rutile GeO2 is a promising ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor for future power electronic devices whose alloy with the wide bandgap semiconductor rutile-SnO2 enables bandgap engineering and the formation of heterostructure devices. …”
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A gamma-ray spectrometer based on MAPD-3NM-2 and LaBr3(ce) and LSO scintillators for hydrogen detection on planetary surfaces by F. Ahmadov, A. Sadigov, Yu. Yu. Bacherikov, O. Okhrimenko, K. Isayev, M. Holik, T. Slavicek, F. Mamedov, G. Ahmadov, A. Mammadli, R. Akbarov, J. Nagiyev, D. Berikov, S. Nuruyev, Z. Sadygov, Yu. Shitov, S. I. Lyubchyk, S. B. Lyubchyk

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Precision Medicine Assessment of the Radiographic Defect Angle of the Intrabony Defect in Periodontal Lesions by Deep Learning of Bitewing Radiographs by Patricia Angela R. Abu, Yi-Cheng Mao, Yuan-Jin Lin, Chien-Kai Chao, Yi-He Lin, Bo-Siang Wang, Chiung-An Chen, Shih-Lun Chen, Tsung-Yi Chen, Kuo-Chen Li

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A Switched-Capacitor-Based 7-Level Self-Balancing High-Gain Inverter Employing a Single DC Source by Yatindra Gopal, Kaibalya Prasad Panda, Akanksha Kumari, Julio C. Rosas-Caro

“…The proposed 7-level SC inverter requires less number of switches, driver diodes, and capacitors and a lower number of semiconductor switches than most recently developed topologies. …”
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Synthetic Strategies and Applications of GaN Nanowires by Guoquan Suo, Shuai Jiang, Juntao Zhang, Jianye Li, Meng He

“…GaN is an important III-V semiconductor material with a direct band gap of 3.4 eV at 300 K. …”
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Recent Advances in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells by Umer Mehmood, Saleem-ur Rahman, Khalil Harrabi, Ibnelwaleed A. Hussein, B. V. S. Reddy

“…DSSCs comprise a sensitized semiconductor (photoelectrode) and a catalytic electrode (counter electrode) with an electrolyte sandwiched between them and their efficiency depends on many factors. …”
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Design of a Four-Branch Optical Power Splitter Based on Gallium-Nitride Using Rectangular Waveguide Coupling for Telecommunication Links by Retno W. Purnamaningsih, Nji R. Poespawati, Elhadj Dogheche

“…This paper reports design of a simple four-branch optical power splitter using five parallel rectangular waveguides coupling in a gallium-nitride (GaN) semiconductor/sapphire for telecommunication links. The optimisation was conducted using the 3D FD-BPM method for long wavelength optical communication. …”
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Machine Learning-Based Modeling of Hot Carrier Injection in 40 nm CMOS Transistors by Xhesila Xhafa, Ali Dogus Gungordu, Mustafa Berke Yelten

“…This paper presents a machine-learning-based approach for the degradation modeling of hot carrier injection in metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). Stress measurement data have been employed at various stress conditions of both n- and p-MOSFETs with different channel geometries. …”
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A New Linear Motor Force Ripple Compensation Method Based on Inverse Model Iterative Learning and Robust Disturbance Observer by Xuewei Fu, Xiaofeng Yang, Zhenyu Chen

“…Permanent magnet linear motors (PMLMs) are gaining increasing interest in ultra-precision and long stroke motion stage, such as reticle and wafer stage of scanner for semiconductor lithography. However, the performances of PMLM are greatly affected by inherent force ripple. …”
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A Novel Hybrid T-Type Three-Level Inverter Based on SVPWM for PV Application by Ayiguzhali Tuluhong, Weiqing Wang, Yongdong Li, Lie Xu

“…At the same time, the space vector pulse width modulation (SVPWM) method is used to simulate the proposed topology in the MATLAB/SIMULINK platform, while the loss of each semiconductor switch is calculated using MELCOSIM software. …”
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Thin Film CIGS Solar Cells, Photovoltaic Modules, and the Problems of Modeling by Antonino Parisi, Luciano Curcio, Vincenzo Rocca, Salvatore Stivala, Alfonso C. Cino, Alessandro C. Busacca, Giovanni Cipriani, Diego La Cascia, Vincenzo Di Dio, Rosario Miceli, Giuseppe Ricco Galluzzo

“…As a matter of fact, electrodeposition is known as a practical alternative to costly vacuum-based technologies for semiconductor processing in the photovoltaic device sector, but it can lead to quite different structural and electrical properties. …”
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Interfacial Transport Study of Ultra-Thin InN-Enhanced Quantum Dot Solar Cells by Shuaijie Wang, Dong Zhang, Zhenhe Ju

“…Solar cells are a means of converting solar energy into electrical energy using the photovoltaic effect of semiconductor materials. This photoelectric absorber layer has been developed for more than 70 years. …”
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Narrowband, Visible-Blind UV-A Sensor Based on a Mg0.52Zn0.48O Film Deposited by Radio-Frequency Sputtering Using a ZnO-Mg Composite Target by Yuki Kohama, Takuya Nagai, Mitsuru Inada, Tadashi Saitoh

“…The fabricated PD has a metal-semiconductor-metal structure with interdigitated electrodes and exhibits a narrow 3 dB bandwidth of 26 nm with a peak response wavelength of 340 nm and a cut-off wavelength of 353 nm. …”
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Effect of Electronegativity and Charge Balance on the Visible-Light-Responsive Photocatalytic Activity of Nonmetal Doped Anatase TiO2 by Jibao Lu, Hao Jin, Ying Dai, Kesong Yang, Baibiao Huang

“…In addition, the edge positions of conduction band and valence band, which determine the ability of a semiconductor to transfer photoexcited electrons to species adsorbed on its surface, were predicted as well. …”
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High-Volume OTA Production Testing of Millimeter-Wave Antenna-in-Package Modules by Jose Moreira, Athanasios Papanikolaou, Jan Hesselbarth

“…Considering the constraints of typical automatic test equipment (ATE) used by the semiconductor industry, this article describes technical solutions for the integration of OTA testing into the ATE environment. …”
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Terahertz nanofuse by a single nanowire-combined nanoantenna by Choi Geunchang, Roh Yeeun, Seo Minah

“…We propose a terahertz nanofuse through irreversible modulations in transmitted terahertz using nanowires-combined nanoantenna structures. Semiconductor and metal nanowires show irreversible reconfiguration in their geometry at an incident field of 20 kV/cm. …”
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Inorganic Photochemistry and Solar Energy Harvesting: Current Developments and Challenges to Solar Fuel Production by Sinval F. Sousa, Breno L. Souza, Cristiane L. Barros, Antonio Otavio T. Patrocinio

“…This manuscript presents a review of the recent developments of hybrid systems based on molecular photocatalysts immobilized on semiconductor surfaces for solar fuel production through water oxidation and CO2 reduction and also discusses the current challenges for the potential application of these photocatalyst systems.…”
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Doping of rare earth element: The effects in elevated physical and optical properties of ZnO by Uji Pratomo, Natasha Fransisca, Muchammad Dhuhri Adzani, Irkham Irkham, Allyn Pramudya Sulaeman, Diana Rakhmawaty Eddy, Jacob Yan Mulyana, Indah Primadona

“…Zinc oxide (ZnO) serves as a highly adaptable semiconductor with a crucial role in various applications because of its crystal structure compatibility and significant band gap. …”
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Computational Study of Metal-Free Magnetism and Spin-Dependent Seebeck Effect in Silicene Nanoribbons with Zigzag and Klein Edges by Xingyi Tan, Gang Xu, Youchang Jiang, Dahua Ren

“…With the increase of the width parameter N from 4 to 19, the N-ZKSiNRs pass from the indirect-gap bipolar magnetic semiconducting state (BMS) to the bipolar spin-gapless semiconductor (BSGS) and eventually to half-metallicity (HM). …”
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Gelatin Used as a Transductor in an Optical Hygrometer Based on a Fabry-Perot Interferometer by Sergio Calixto

“…The measurement of humidity shows its importance in applications such as food processing, meteorological, semiconductor, building and construction, medical, and automotive to mention but a few. …”
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