Bulk and nanoscale semiconducting materials: Structural advances using solid-state NMR spectroscopy

Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy continues to make major strides in the investigation of semiconducting materials. As an analytical technique, NMR offers an element-specific probe of virtually any chemical system and is uniquely suited to the selective study of materials exhibiting disorder or inhomogeneity, where long-range structural techniques may fail. With the advances in experimentation, hardware and high-polarization techniques realized over the past decade, challenging studies on difficult nuclei from bulk to nano-sized materials have now become practical. Below, we feature five recent works that have advanced our atomic-level understanding of new semiconducting materials using NMR spectroscopy.