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Scalable Approaches to III-V Nanowires for Photodetection

III-V semiconductor nanowires have unique properties that make them ideal for advanced photodetectors on inexpensive substrates. For example, they exhibit enhanced or polarization-dependent light absorption, they can form complex heterostructures, and thei ...

EPFL2023

Momentum-Space Imaging of Ultra-Thin Electron Liquids in δ-Doped Silicon

Nicolò D'Anna, Gabriel Aeppli

Two-dimensional dopant layers (δ-layers) in semiconductors provide the high-mobility electron liquids (2DELs) needed for nanoscale quantum-electronic devices. Key parameters such as carrier densities, effective masses, and confinement thicknesses for 2DELs ...

WILEY2023

Zn3P2 as an earth-abundant photovoltaic material: from growth to device

Rajrupa Paul

The development of cost-effective and earth-abundant semiconducting materials is imperative for the sustainable deployment of photovoltaic technology. Zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) is a promising candidate for terawatt-scale electricity generation. It has a near- ...

EPFL2023

Nanopillars Enabling III-V Integration on Si (100) and (111)

Lucas Güniat

The majority of current semiconductor technologies are built on Si (100), such as the CMOS technology, or conventional solar cell devices. III-V semiconductors offer great perspectives given their high carrier mobility and direct band gap. However their in ...

EPFL2021

Laser soliton microcombs heterogeneously integrated on silicon

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Chao Xiang, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Zeyu Zhang, Zeyu Zhang

Silicon photonics enables wafer-scale integration of optical functionalities on chip. Silicon-based laser frequency combs can provide integrated sources of mutually coherent laser lines for terabit-per-second transceivers, parallel coherent light detection ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2021

Scalable Nanowire Networks: Growth and Functionality

Martin George Friedl

With the rise of quantum computing and recent experiments into topological quantum computers come exciting new opportunities for III-V semiconductor quantum nanostructures. In this thesis, we explore the scalable fabrication of patterned arrays and branche ...

EPFL2020

Growth and characterisation of earth-abundant semiconductor nanostructures for solar energy harvesting

Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall

Zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) is a compound semiconductor based on earth-abundant elements with functional properties ideal for solar cell applications. Cheap, abundant, and renewable energy sources are increasingly imperative due to the imminent threat posed by ...

EPFL2020

van der Waals Epitaxy of Earth-Abundant Zn3P2 on Graphene for Photovoltaics

Cyril Cayron, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Nicolas Philippe Laurent Humblot, Roland Logé, Mahdi Zamani, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Rajrupa Paul, Shreyas Sanjay Joglekar

Earth-abundant semiconducting materials are a potential solution for large-scale deployment of solar cells at a lower cost. Zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) is one such Earth-abundant material with optoelectronic properties suitable for photovoltaics. Herein, we rep ...

2020

3D Ordering at the Liquid-Solid Polar Interface of Nanowires

Cécile Hébert, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Nicolas Tappy, Martin George Friedl, Michele Ceriotti, Luca Francaviglia, Giulio Imbalzano, Mahdi Zamani, Lea Ghisalberti, Sara Marti Sanchez

The nature of the liquid-solid interface determines the characteristics of a variety of physical phenomena, including catalysis, electrochemistry, lubrication, and crystal growth. Most of the established models for crystal growth are based on macroscopic t ...

Wiley2020

Template-Assisted Scalable Nanowire Networks

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Lucas Güniat, Martin George Friedl, Heidi Andrea Potts, Mahdi Zamani, Wonjong Kim, Sara Marti Sanchez, Vladimir Dubrovskii

Topological qubits based on Majorana Fermions have the potential to revolutionize the emerging field of quantum computing by making information processing significantly more robust to decoherence. Nanowires are a promising medium for hosting these kinds of ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2018

The growth and optical properties of III-V nanostructures grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Gözde Tütüncüoglu

This thesis is dedicated to the growth and characterization of the optoelectronic properties of III-V semiconductor nanostructures namely nanowires and nanoscale membranes. III-V semiconductors possess promising intrinsic properties like direct band gap, h ...

EPFL2017

AlN grown on Si(111) by ammonia-molecular beam epitaxy in the 900-1200 degrees C temperature range

Denis Martin, Nicolas Grandjean, Sebastian Pascal Tamariz Kaufmann

We present a comprehensive study of AlN growth on Si(111) substrate by gas source molecular beam epitaxy with ammonia as nitrogen precursor in the high temperature range. We first demonstrate that the observation of the silicon 7 x 7 surface reconstruction ...

Elsevier2017

Fabrication defects and grating couplers in III-nitride photonic crystal nanobeam lasers (Conference Presentation)

Jean-François Carlin, Nicolas Grandjean, Raphaël Butté, Ian Michael Rousseau

We report a numerical and experimental investigation of fabrication tolerances and outcoupling in optically pumped III-nitride nanolasers operating near lambda = 460 nm, in which feedback is provided by a one-dimensional photonic crystal nanobeam cavity an ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Parabolic tailored-potential quantum-wires grown in inverted pyramids

Elyahou Kapon, Alok Rudra, Justyna Szeszko, Mikhail Lazarev

Quasi-one-dimensional AlGaAs quantum wires (QWRs) with parabolic heterostructure profiles along their axis were fabricated using metallorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) On patterned (111)B GaAs substrates. Tailoring of the confined electronic states via ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Origin of Fermi-level pinning at GaAs/oxide interfaces through the hybrid functional study of defects

Davide Colleoni

Gallium arsenide is currently under scrutiny for replacing silicon in microelectronic devices due to its high carrier mobilities. However, the widespread use of this semiconductor is hampered by the intrinsic difficulty of producing high-quality interfaces ...

EPFL2015

Site-controlled InGaAs/GaAs pyramidal quantum dots grown by MOVPE on patterned substrates using triethylgallium

Benjamin Dwir, Elyahou Kapon, Alok Rudra, Pascal Gallo, Clément William Tendaï Jarlov, Bruno Marie Dominique Rigal, Alexey Lyasota

The fabrication and characterization of site-controlled InGaAs/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) made by MOVPE using triethylgallium (TEGa) on patterned {111}B GaAs substrates are reported. Results are compared to more traditional pyramidal QD structures grown emplo ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Towards defect-free 1-D GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures based on GaAs nanomembranes

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Davide Deiana, Federico Matteini, Heidi Andrea Potts

We demonstrate the growth of defect-free zinc-blende GaAs nanomembranes by molecular beam epitaxy. Our growth studies indicate a strong impact of As-4 re-emission and shadowing in the growth rate of the structures. The highest aspect ratio structures are o ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Metamorphic InAlAs/InGaAs/InAlAs/GaAs HEMT heterostructures containing strained superlattices and inverse steps in the metamorphic buffer

Philippe Buffat, Benjamin Dwir, Elena Suvorova Buffat

Metamorphic InxAl1-xAs buffer design features influence on electrophysical and structural properties of the heterostructures was investigated. Two types of MHEMT heterostructures In0.70Al0.30As/In0.76Ga0.24As with novel design contained inverse steps or st ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Dilute-Nitride Low-Dimensional Nanostructures Formed on Non-Planar Substrates

Romain Carron

The properties of semiconductors heterostructures of nanoscopic dimensions change from that of bulk material according to the rules of quantum mechanics. The planar quantum wells (QWs) are widely used in various diode and laser devices thanks to the relati ...

EPFL2013

Nanoindentation cracking in gallium arsenide: Part II. TEM investigation

Jean-Marc Breguet, Jean-Daniel Ganière, Johann Michler, Jacques Giovanola, Cédric Pouvreau

The nanoindentation fracture behavior of gallium arsenide (GaAs) is examined from two perspectives in two parent papers. In the first paper (part I), we address the morphology of the crack field induced by different types of indenters by means of in situ n ...

Cambridge University Press2013