Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

Discovery of earth-abundant nitride semiconductors by computational screening and high-pressure synthesis

  • Yoyo Hinuma,
  • Taisuke Hatakeyama,
  • Yu Kumagai,
  • Lee A. Burton,
  • Hikaru Sato,
  • Yoshinori Muraba,
  • Soshi Iimura,
  • Hidenori Hiramatsu,
  • Isao Tanaka,
  • Hideo Hosono,
  • Fumiyasu Oba

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11962
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Nitride semiconductors are attractive for various applications. Here a computational screening study identifies a number of possible ternary nitrides as promising candidates, including a phase that the authors synthesize for the first time via a high-pressure route.