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The paper reports fabrication of Germanium-on-Insulator (GeOI) wafer by Oxygen ion implantation of an undoped single crystalline Ge wafer of orientation (100). Oxygen ions of energy 200 keV were implanted. The implanted wafer was subjected…
A great deal of interest is directed nowadays towards the development of innovative technologies in the field of quantum information and quantum computing, with emphasis on obtaining reliable qubits as building blocks. The realization of…
Two-dimensional (2D) materials tend to have the preferably formation of vacancies at the outer surface. Here, contrary to the normal notion, we reveal a type of vacancy that thermodynamically initiates from the interior part of the 2D…
Electrical properties of multilayer arrays of germanium nanoclusters grown on the silicon (001) surface at low temperature have been studied. A correlation between the quantum dot (QD) density estimated from STM and the charge accumulated…
Germanium nanowires with p- and n-dopants were synthesized by chemical vapor deposition and used to construct complementary field effect transistors . Electrical transport and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy data are correlated to glean…
Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) structures containing 74Ge nanocrystals (NC-Ge) imbedded inside the SiO_2 layer were studied for their capacitance characterization. Ge atoms were introduced by implantation of 74Ge+ ions with energy of 150…
Germanium dioxide (r-GeO2) is an emerging new ultrawide bandgap (UWBG) semiconductor with significant potential for power electronics, thanks to its large-size substrate compatibility and ambipolar doping capability. However, phase…
The results of RHEED, FTIR and Raman spectroscopy study of silicon and germanium films with the thickness up to 200 nm grown from molecular beams on dielectric Si$_3$N$_4$/SiO$_2$/Si(001) substrates are presented. Noticeable changes of the…
Here, we report an alternative route to achieve two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a semiconductor structure. It has been shown that charge accumulation on the side facets can lead to the formation of 2DEG in a network of c-axis…
In this article, the results of investigation of processes occurring during the molecular-beam deposition of germanium layers on Si$_3$N$_4$ dielectric substrates within a wide range of the Ge film growth temperatures (30 to 600{\deg}C) are…
Buried-channel semiconductor heterostructures are an archetype material platform to fabricate gated semiconductor quantum devices. Sharp confinement potential is obtained by positioning the channel near the surface, however nearby surface…
A bottom-up chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process for the growth of graphene nanomesh films is demonstrated. The process relies on silicon nanospheres to block nucleation sites for graphene CVD on copper substrates. These spheres are…
Formation of p+ contact on Germanium is important for applications in diode detector and other electronic devices. In this work, thermally deposited Al on Ge crystal is annealed at 350oC followed by slow cooling for solid-state regrowth of…
Germanium is emerging as the substrate of choice for the growth of graphene in CMOS-compatible processes. For future application in next generation devices the accurate control over the properties of high-quality graphene synthesized on Ge…
In this article, we report the process induced variation in the characteristics of PECVD deposited and thermally grown silicon dioxide (SiO2) thin film. We find key differences in the porosity, arrangement of the nano-pores, surface…
We present a density-functional theory (DFT) study of the structural, electronic, and chemical bonding behaviour in germanium (Ge)-doped vanadium dioxide (VO$_2$). Our motivation is to explain the reported increase of the metal-insulator…
Thin films of cerium dioxide (CeO2) were deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD) at 250 {\deg}C on both Si and TiN substrates. The ALD growth produces CeO2 films with polycrystalline cubic phase on both substrates. However, the films…
We present a pronounced unprecedented surface modification of a crystalline Ge layer under heavy ion irradiation with a Ge ion beam at high energy of 2.5 MeV. Under the irradiation conditions, the Ge layer did not become porous as observed…
Germanium antimony telluride has been the most used and studied phase-change material for electronic memory due to its suitable crystallization temperature, amorphous to crystalline resistance contrast, and stability of the amorphous phase.…
Rutile Germanium Dioxide (GeO2) has been recently theoretically identified as an ultrawide bandgap (UWBG) semiconductor with bandgap 4.68 eV similar to Ga2O3 but having bipolar dopability and ~2x higher electron mobility, Baliga figure of…