Kenyon's own Professor Frank Peiris will be discussing semiconductors and the research he conducted in Berlin during his sabbatical last year.
Silicon-based semiconductors have fulfilled the promise of producing mature technologies such as electronics, communications, and storage. They are less effective, however, for high-power applications, such as electric vehicles and renewable energy production. In this talk, I will focus on two alternate semiconductors which I researched during my sabbatical last year at the Paul Drude Institute in Berlin. First, I will show how scandium nitride, a wide-band gap semiconductor, was grown using molecular beam epitaxy, and how its structural, optical and electrical properties were measured. Second, I will focus on a class of semiconductors called transition metal dichalcogenides and elaborate on how these materials challenge our current understanding of the behavior of electrons in materials.
Join us on Friday, Oct. 13, for this exciting presentation from Peiris. Lunch will be available in Hayes 216 from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and the presentation will begin in Hayes 211/213 at 12:10 p.m. We hope to see you there!