{"id":2453,"date":"2007-05-01T20:39:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2016-06-17T20:40:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T20:40:04","slug":"growth-of-znsin2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/growth-of-znsin2\/","title":{"rendered":"Growth of ZnSiN2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Alexander Grutter with Kathy Kash<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Growth of ZnSiN2<\/h3>\n<p>Zinc Silicon Nitride (ZnSiN2 ) is an extremely wide band-gap semiconductor which has never been grown before. With this senior project I will attempt to grow ZnSiN2 by first designing and building a crystal growth system, and then by finding a \u201crecipe\u201d for crystal growth. Since silicon has a melting point (1414\u00a0\u00b0C) far higher than that of zinc (907), the silicon will be alloyed with gold (which is inactive in this reaction) to drastically reduce its melting point from 1414 \u00b0C to 363 \u00b0C. This lower melting temperature should make it easier for zinc in the vapor phase to condense into the alloy. Introduction of ammonia (NH 3 ) will provide nitrogen to the molten silicon and zinc, completing the reaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Grutter with Kathy KashGrowth of ZnSiN2<\/p>\n<p>Zinc Silicon Nitride (ZnSiN2 ) is an extremely wide band-gap semiconductor which has never been grown before. With this senior project I will attempt to grow ZnSiN2 by first designing and building a crystal growth system, and then by finding a \u201crecipe\u201d for crystal growth. Since silicon has a melting point (1414\u00a0\u00b0C) far higher than that of zinc (907), the silicon will be alloyed with gold (which is inactive in this reaction) to drastically reduce its melting point from 1414 \u00b0C to 363 \u00b0C. This lower melting temperature should make it easier for zinc in the vapor phase to condense into the alloy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/growth-of-znsin2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Growth of ZnSiN2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[83,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}