Accelerating Sustainable Semiconductors With ‘Multielement Ink’

Credit: Maria Folgueras and Peidong Yang/Berkeley Lab

Photoluminescent image of the California Golden Bears logo emitted from five-element ZrSnTeHfPt single crystals under UV lamp excitation. The crystals were formed from “multielement ink.” The experiment demonstrates the material’s potential as a color-tunable LED device.

« Accelerating Sustainable Semiconductors With ‘Multielement Ink’

Credit: Maria Folgueras, Yuxin Jiang, and Peidong Yang/Berkeley Lab. Image courtesy of Nature.

Scanning electron microscope image of six-element single crystals. The crystals are formed from building blocks of “multielement ink,” the first high-entropy semiconductor that can be processed at low-temperature or room temperature.

« Accelerating Sustainable Semiconductors With ‘Multielement Ink’

Credit: Maria Folgueras, Yuxin Jiang, and Peidong Yang/Berkeley Lab. Image courtesy of Nature.

In solution, multielement ink self-assembles at low temperatures into high-entropy semiconductors or halide perovskite single crystals.

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