This month’s crystal clear shows an indium nitride crystal taken from an article published in Issue 11 of CrystEngComm. We liked it because it looks like a classic engagement ring style diamond, which given our recent royal wedding is particularly striking!
The crystal was grown using gold nanoparticles as a catalyst and via a combination of vapour-liquid-solid and vapour-solid growth mechanisms. Indium nitride has potential for use in the semiconductor industry because of its bandgap of 0.7eV, and on this occasion the authors see these crystals being used in microcavity lasing.
Read the full article to find out more about these high quality indium nitride crystallites…
Vapor–liquid–solid meets vapor–solid growth mechanism for fabricating high quality indium nitride crystallites
Haibin Liu, Sishen Xie and Guosheng Cheng
CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 3649-3652, DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05137G
