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Original Articles

Hydrides as materials for semiconductor electronics

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Pages 2461-2476 | Received 03 Apr 2008, Accepted 22 Jul 2008, Published online: 26 Sep 2008
 

Abstract

Systematic studies using density functional theory have shown that some hydrides possess the features of semiconductors. These features include larger fundamental band gap, well dispersed bottom-most conduction band and/or top-most valence band, small electron/hole effective masses and small intrinsic carrier concentration. It is demonstrated that depending upon the composition, hydrides possess a wide range of band gap values and hence they can be regarded as materials for narrow to wide band gap semiconducting applications. The possibility of designing hydride-based pn junctions, and also their advantages as well as deficiencies compared to existing oxide semiconductors, are discussed. Replacing oxide-based semiconductors by hydrides can help to avoid problems such as formation of an oxide layer, band offsets, large concentration of defect states at the interface between the oxide and semiconductor, etc. Moreover, hydrides can be regarded as an alternative to conventional semiconductors and hence can be used in future-generation electronic devices called “hydride electronics”.

Acknowledgments

This work has received financial and supercomputing support from the Research Council of Norway within the FUNMAT and NANOMAT projects, as well as from the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. We are thankful to Dr K. Knizek, Dr R.Vidya, and Jo Gjessing for computational-practical help.

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