Blue and UV light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are key to modern, energy-saving lighting and are used in a range of applications including efficient home, farm and building lighting, high-speed networking, ...
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Light-emitting devices having a multiple quantum well (MQW) diode structure and methods of making and using the devices are provided. The devices include aluminum nitride/aluminum oxide bilayers on th...
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Future advances in semiconductor electronics for computers will require three-dimensional (3-D) integrated circuits that are not limited by the physics of thin film processing. In addition, flexible e...
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Silicon is a relatively inexpensive material for making integrated power amplifiers for communications devices such as cell phones; however, these power amplifiers are generally limited to low power a...
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PIN diodes are semiconductor devices that include an undoped intrinsic semiconductor region between the p-type and n-type regions. These diodes are commonly integrated as photodetectors on silicon CMO...
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Flexible transistors and electronic circuits incorporating the transistors are provided. The flexible transistors promote heat dissipation from the active regions of the transistors while preserving t...
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Photoreceptor scaffolds that can be used for transplantation of organized photoreceptor tissue, with or without retinal pigment epithelial cells, which may improve grafted cell survival, integration, ...
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Thin-film transistors often use a single-crystal layer of silicon semiconductor attached to a flexible plastic substrate to allow flexibility in the electronics. However, transistors using some types ...
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The demand for smaller wireless communication devices that use less power is growing. In particular, radio frequency identification (RFID) systems require small, low-power transmitters to label or “...
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Silicon is a major component in semiconductors due to its good electrical properties, reasonable cost and manufacturability. Zinc oxide is promising as a semiconductive material because it has a large...
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Improvements in technologies such as cell phones, laptops and small digital electronics are the result of the increasing capability of electronics and photonics. However, there is a continuing need fo...
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Flexible single-crystalline semiconductors used in high-performance micro- and macro-electronics have been intensely studied in recent years.  Thin-film transistors using single crystalline silicon, ...
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