Advances in Quaternary and Pentanary Semiconductors for Communication and Networking Applications

Abstract

Semiconductors play important role in communication applications right from allowing solar panels to harvest light energy along with acting as the receiver elements of light‐based communication network. These self‐powered nodes allow network of communicating devices to be assembled within the Internet of things, wireless sensor network, mobile/vehicular ad-hoc network and many more potential applications. After initial uses of binary and ternary semiconductors, the research paradigm has now shifted towards quaternary and pentanary semiconductors. These classes of semiconductors are playing dominant role in communication devices because of their flexibility to get easily fabricated by changing the composition of their elemental materials. This paper deals with such novel semiconductors whose properties would certainly leverage the future direction of research in wireless communication systems.