Aluminium Oxynitride – a Transparent Ceramic
Aluminium oxynitride (ALON) is a clear ceramic made of aluminum, oxygen, and nitrogen. It’s a clear polycrystalline ceramic with a cubic spinel crystal structure composed…
Chemistry
Aluminium Nitride – a Solid Nitride of Aluminium
Aluminium nitride (AlN) is a solid aluminium nitride. It is produced through the carbothermal reduction of alumina or direct nitridation of aluminum. It is an…
Scandium Nitride – a binary III-V indirect bandgap semiconductor
Scandium nitride (ScN) is a semiconductor with a binary III-V indirect bandgap. It is a semiconductor with a rocksalt structure that has piqued the interest…
Engineers have Discovered a Way to Use Radiation to Convert Organic Waste into Renewable Biofuel Additives
Lancaster University engineers have conducted research that has discovered a means to manufacture sustainable biofuel additives using radiation obtained from nuclear waste. Because the renewable…
Silicon Nitride – a Chemical Compound
Silicon nitride (Si3N4) is a chemical compound composed of silicon and nitrogen. It is a non-oxide structural ceramic material that is typically black or dark…
Metal Foam – a Cellular Structure Made of Solid Metal
A metal foam is a cellular structure made of a solid metal (typically aluminum) with gas-filled pores that make up a large portion of the…
Silicon Oxynitride – a Ceramic Material
Silicon oxynitride, also known as SiOxNy, is a ceramic material with the chemical formula SiOxNy. Because of its luminescence performance and tunable refractive index, it…
Machine Learning was Used to Anticipate how Metal Alloys and Metal Oxides’ Compositions Impact their Electrical Structures
Researchers at the University of Michigan utilized machine learning to forecast how the compositions of metal alloys and metal oxides impact their electrical structures, paving…
Silver Nitride – an Explosive Chemical Compound
Silver nitride, abbreviated Ag3N, is a highly explosive chemical compound. It is a black, metallic-looking solid formed when silver oxide or silver nitrate is dissolved…
Sodium Nitride – an Inorganic Compound
The inorganic compound sodium nitride has the chemical formula Na3N. It has the appearance of a yellowish-white crystalline solid. Sodium nitride, unlike lithium nitride and…
A Silicon-based All-nitride Superconducting Qubit
Researchers have created an all-nitride superconducting qubit using epitaxial growth on a silicon substrate rather than aluminum as the conductive material. This qubit employs niobium…
Strontium Titanate – an Oxide of Strontium and Titanium
Strontium titanate, also known as SrTiO3, is a strontium and titanium oxide with the chemical formula SrTiO3. It is a centrosymmetric paraelectric material with a…
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