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20192026
most citedSilicon carbide diodes for neutron detection

56 citations · 243 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Beyond Point-like Defects in Bulk Semiconductors: Junction Spectroscopy Techniques for Perovskite Solar Cells and 2D Materials

Ivana Capan

Junction spectroscopy techniques (JSTs) are powerful tools for investigating electrically active defects in semiconductors. Originally developed to study point-like defects in bulk…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 7 cited

Defects in Silicon Carbide as Quantum Qubits: Recent Advances in Defect Engineering

Ivana Capan

This review provides an overview of defects in silicon carbide (SiC) with potential applications as quantum qubits. It begins with a brief introduction to quantum qubits and existi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 24 cited

Electrically active defects in 3C, 4H and 6H silicon carbide polytypes: A review

Ivana Capan

This paper aims to critically review electrically active defects studied by junction spectroscopy techniques (deep-level transient spectroscopy and minority carrier transient spect…

physics.app-ph2024★ 48 cited

Wide bandgap semiconductors for radiation detection: A review

Ivana Capan

In this paper, an overview of the wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors for radiation detection applications is presented. The recent advancements in the fabrication of high-quality wa…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 7 cited

Boron-related defects in n-type 4H-SiC Schottky barrier diodes

Tihomir Knežević, Eva Jelavić, Yuichi Yamazaki +3

We report on boron-related defects in the low-doped n-type (nitrogen-doped) 4H-SiC semitransparent Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) studied by minority carrier transient spectroscopy…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 19 cited

Theory of shallow and deep boron defects in 4H-SiC

Vitor J. B. Torres, Ivana Capan, José Coutinho

Abstract Despite advances toward improving the quality of -type 4H-SiC substrates and layers, we still have no model capable of accounting for the multitude of boron-related opt…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 13 cited

Distinguishing the EH1 and S1 defects in n-type 4H-SiC by Laplace DLTS

Tihomir Knežević, Tomislav Brodar, Vladimir Radulović +3

We report on the low-energy electron and fast neutron irradiated 4H-SiC studied by deep-level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) and Laplace DLTS. Irradiations introduced two defects, E…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 14 cited

M-center in low-energy electron irradiated 4H-SiC

Tihomir Knezevic, Amira Hadzipasic, Takeshi Ohshima +2

We report on the low-energy electron irradiated 4H-SiC material studied by means of deep-level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) and Laplace-DLTS. Electron irradiation has introduced t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 18 cited

The M-center in 4H-SiC is a carbon self-interstitial

J. Coutinho, J. D. Gouveia, T. Makino +5

The list of semiconductor materials with spectroscopically fingerprinted self-interstitials is very short. The M-center in 4H-SiC, a bistable defect responsible for a family of ele…

physics.ins-det2020★ 56 cited

Silicon carbide diodes for neutron detection

José Coutinho, Vitor J. B. Torres, Ivana Capan +11

In the last two decades we have assisted to a rush towards finding a He3-replacing technology capable of detecting neutrons emitted from fissile isotopes. The demand stems from app…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 37 cited

Acceptor levels of the carbon vacancy in -SiC: combining Laplace deep level transient spectroscopy with density functional modeling

Ivana Capan, Tomislav Brodar, José Coutinho +3

We provide direct evidence that the broad Z peak, commonly observed by conventional DLTS in as-grown and at high concentrations in radiation damaged -SiC, has two compo…