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Mn-doped GaAs nanowires were grown in the self-catalytic growth mode on oxidized Si(100) surface by molecular beam epitaxy and characterized by scanning and transmission electron microscopy, Raman scattering, photoluminescence,…

We investigate Ag(100) thin films epitaxially grown on a Fe(100) substrate using a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope. Fabrication of a wedge structure by evaporating Ag through a shadow mask allows us to observe systematic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 Takashi Uchihashi , Tomonobu Nakayama

In this work, we have theoretically investigated the intermixing effect in highly strained In$_{0.3}$Ga$_{0.7}$As/GaAs quantum well (QW) taking into consideration the composition profile change resulting from in-situ indium surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 M. Souaf , M. Baira , H. Maaref , B. Ilahi

As a system with both profound physics and promising application potentials, the strain-induced self-assembled semiconductor nanostructures have been investigated for decades of years. The optical and electrical properties of this system…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-06 H. Y. Zhang , Y. H. Chen , Z. G. Wang

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 (NWs) are a promising medium for…

Density functional theory simulations were used to obtain physical properties of GaN/AlN system. Combination of these two compounds into multiquantum well (MQW) structure will induce strong electrostatic effect leading to emergence of high…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-09 Pawel Strak , Pawel Kempisty , Stanislaw Krukowski

Trench defects in multi-quantum wells (MQWs) have been considered as flawed structures that severely degrade the internal quantum efficiency of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in the past. In this research, trench defects are innovatively…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-19 Z. Pan , Z. Chen , H. Zhang , H. Yang , Y. Chen , J. Nie , C. Deng , B. Dong , D. Wang , Y. Li , H. Lin , W. Chen , F. Jiao , X. Kang , C. Jia , Z. Liang , Q. Wang , G. Zhang , B. Shen

In this paper we present a detailed analysis of the atomic and electronic structure of GaAs nanowires using first-principles pseudopotential calculations. We consider six different types of nanowires with different diameters all grown along…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-12-24 S. Cahangirov , S. Ciraci

Achieving uniform nanowire size, density, and alignment across a wafer is challenging, as small variations in growth parameters can impact performance in energy harvesting devices like solar cells and photodetectors. This study demonstrates…

Growth of GaMnAs by molecular beam epitaxy is typically performed at low substrate temperatures (250C) and high As overpressures leading to the incorporation of excess As and Mn interstitials, which quench optical signals such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 M. Poggio , R. C. Myers , N. P. Stern , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

Computer simulations with Synopsys' Sentaurus TCAD are used to study the effect of the molar concentration of aluminum in the active and waveguide regions on the energy spectrum of carriers in Quantum Well (QW) and the optical spectral…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-05 S. I. Matyukhin , Z. Koziol , S. N. Romashyn

Detailed electronic many-body configurations are extracted from quantitatively measured timeresolved nonlinear absorption spectra of resonantly excited GaAs quantum wells. The microscopic theory assigns the observed spectral changes to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-29 R. P. Smith , J. K. Wahlstrand , A. C. Funk , R. P. Mirin , S. T. Cundiff , J. T. Steiner , M. Schafer , M. Kira , S. W. Koch

InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells (MQWs) have been studied by using cathodoluminescence hyperspectral imaging with high spatial resolution. Variations in peak emission energies and intensities across trench-like features and V-pits on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-19 Jochen Bruckbauer , Paul R. Edwards , Tao Wang , Robert W. Martin

The GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well solar cell (QWSC) shows promise as a novel approach to higher efficiency solar cells but suffers from a poor short circuit current Jsc. We report on efforts to reduce this problem with the use of compositional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 James P. Connolly , Keith W. J. Barnham , Jenny Nelson , Christine Roberts , Malcolm Pate , John S. Roberts

Mid-infrared spectral broadening is of great scientific and technological interest, which till date is mainly achieved using non-silica glass fibers, primarily made of tellurite, fluoride and chalcogenide glasses. We investigate broadband…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-10 Nitu Borgohain , Milivoj Belić , S. Konar

Incorporation of Bi into GaAs-(Ga,Al)As-Ga(As,Bi) core-shell nanowires grown by molecular beam epitaxy is studied with transmission electron microscopy. Nanowires are grown on GaAs(111)B substrates with Au-droplet assisted mode. Bi-doped…

Growth of catalyst-free AlxGa1-xN (0.15<x<0.50)/GaN nanowires by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy is thoroughly structural and chemical analyzed by using transmission electron microscopy related techniques. We found that well-defined…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-07-06 D. Gonzalez , R. Fath , T. Ben , R. Songmuang

We study theoretically the performance of electrically pumped self-organized quantum dots as a gain material in the mid-IR range at room temperature. We analyze an AlGaAs/InGaAs based structure composed of dots-in-a-well sandwiched between…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-27 Stephan Michael , Weng W. Chow , Hans Christian Schneider

Structural analysis of self-catalyzed GaAs nanowires (NWs) grown on lithography-free oxide patterns is described with insight on their growth kinetics. Statistical analysis of templates and NWs in different phases of the growth reveals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Eero Koivusalo , Teemu Hakkarainen , Mircea Guina

By a cleaved-edge overgrowth method with molecular beam epitaxy and a (110) growth-interrupt-anneal, we have fabricated a GaAs quantum well exactly 30 monolayers thick bounded by atomically smooth AlGaAs hetero-interfaces without atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masahiro Yoshita , Hidefumi Akiyama , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Ken W. West