Scientists fabricate hexagonal silicon, potentially leading to light-emitting semiconductors

Tuesday, August 18, 2015 - 09:00 in Physics & Chemistry

(Phys.org)—Virtually all semiconductors used in today's electronic devices are made of silicon having a cubic crystal structure, as silicon naturally crystallizes in the cubic form. In a new study, researchers have fabricated silicon in a hexagonal crystal structure, which is expected to exhibit novel optical, electrical, superconducting, and mechanical properties compared with cubic silicon.

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