{"id":145410,"date":"2022-09-01T18:22:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T23:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/computational-model-could-speed-development-of-semiconductors-useful-in-quantum-applications"},"modified":"2022-09-01T18:22:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T23:22:55","slug":"computational-model-could-speed-development-of-semiconductors-useful-in-quantum-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/computational-model-could-speed-development-of-semiconductors-useful-in-quantum-applications","title":{"rendered":"Computational model could speed development of semiconductors useful in quantum applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/computational-model-could-speed-development-of-semiconductors-useful-in-quantum-applications3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from North Carolina State University used computational analysis to predict how optical properties of semiconductor material zinc selenide (ZnSe) change when doped with halogen elements, and found the predictions were confirmed by experimental results. Their method could speed the process of identifying and creating materials useful in quantum applications.<\/p>\n<p>Creating semiconductors with desirable properties means taking advantage of point defects\u2014sites within a material where an atom may be missing, or where there are impurities. By manipulating these sites in the material, often by adding different elements (a process referred to as \u201cdoping\u201d), designers can elicit different properties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefects are unavoidable, even in \u2018pure\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials<\/a>,\u201d says Doug Irving, University Faculty Scholar and professor of materials science and engineering at NC State. \u201cWe want to interface with those spaces via doping to change certain properties of a material. But figuring out which elements to use in doping is time and labor intensive. If we could use a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/computer+model\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computer model<\/a> to predict these outcomes it would allow material engineers to focus on elements with the best potential.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from North Carolina State University used computational analysis to predict how optical properties of semiconductor material zinc selenide (ZnSe) change when doped with halogen elements, and found the predictions were confirmed by experimental results. Their method could speed the process of identifying and creating materials useful in quantum applications. Creating semiconductors with desirable properties [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}