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Semiconductors: Bio‐Inspired Band Gap Engineering of Zinc Oxide by Intracrystalline Incorporation of Amino Acids (Adv. Mater. 3/2014)
Author(s) -
Brif Anastasia,
Ankonina Guy,
Drathen Christina,
Pokroy Boaz
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201470016
Subject(s) - materials science , zinc , band gap , crystallization , semiconductor , wide bandgap semiconductor , molecule , oxide , crystal structure , crystal (programming language) , lattice (music) , nanotechnology , inorganic chemistry , crystallography , optoelectronics , chemical engineering , organic chemistry , metallurgy , chemistry , engineering , programming language , physics , computer science , acoustics
A bioinspired route for bandgap engineering of zinc oxide semiconductors by incorporation of organic molecules within the crystal structure is described by Boaz Pokroy and co‐workers on page 477. These molecules, while present during the crystallization process, indeed get incorporated into the crystal, inducing lattice strains, which are accompanied by a linear bandgap shift.