什么是半导体？

从科技或是经济发展的角度来看，半导体非常重要。很多电子产品，如计算机、移动电话、数字录音机的核心单元都是利用半导体的电导率变化来处理信息。

常见的半导体材料有硅、锗、砷化镓等，而硅更是各种半导体材料中，在商业应用上最具有影响力的一种。

硅基半导体自旋量子比特以其长量子退相干时间和高 *** 控保真度，以及与现代半导体工艺技术兼容的高可扩展性，成为量子计算研究的核心方向之一。

Along with being a "girl's best friend," diamonds also have remarkable1properties that could make them ideal semiconductors3. This is welcome news for electronicssemiconductors are needed to meet the rising demand for more efficient electronics that deliver and convert power. The thirst for electronics is unlikely to cease and almost every appliance or device requires a suite4of electronics that transfer, convert and control power. Now, researchers have taken an important step toward that technology with a new way to dope single crystals of diamonds, a crucial process for building electronic devices.

"We need the devices to manipulate the power in the way that we want," said Zhengqiang (Jack) Ma, an electrical and computer engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He and his colleagues describe their new method in the Journal of Applied5 Physics, from AIP Publishing.