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Low-temperature epitaxial growth of refractory transition-metal nitride thin films by means of physical vapor deposition has been a recurring theme in advanced thin-film technology for several years. In the present study, 150-nm-thick…
Thin GaMnAs layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy were subjected to low-temperature post growth annealing, with an amorphous arsenic capping layer deposited on the GaMnAs surface directly after the epitaxial growth. It is shown that the…
The growth of atomically-flat thin films of ferroelectric PbTiO3 on SrTiO3 substrates, using molecular beam epitaxy, is reported. The main issue in the growth of these materials is the high volatility of lead. This can be largely overcome…
Photoluminescence and magnetotransport measurements have been performed to assess the quality of modulation doped GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. The temporal evolution of the low-temperature electron mobility of samples prepared in a…
A range of high quality Ga1-xMnxN layers have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy with manganese concentration 0.2 < x < 10%, having the x value tuned by changing the growth temperature (Tg) between 700 and 590 {\deg}C, respectively. We…
Atomically thin PtSe2 films have attracted extensive research interests for potential applications in high-speed electronics, spintronics and photodetectors. Obtaining high quality, single crystalline thin films with large size is critical.…
Here, we report a detailed method of growing LaAlGe, a non-magnetic Weyl semimetal, thin film on silicon(100) substrates by molecular beam epitaxy and their structural and electrical characterizations. 50 nm thick LaAlGe films were…
In this work, we report on the growth of high-mobility $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ homoepitaxial thin films grown at a temperature much lower than the conventional growth temperature window for metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. Low-temperature…
We report growth of CuMnSb thin films by molecular beam epitaxy on InAs(001) substrates. The CuMnSb layers are compressively strained ($0.6~\text{%}$) due to lattice mismatch. The thin films have a $\omega$ full width half max of $7.7^{''}$…
Thin crystalline layers of TaAs Weyl semimetal (9 and 18 nm thick) are grown by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs(001) substrates. The (001) planes of the tetragonal TaAs lattice are parallel to the GaAs(001) substrate, but the corresponding…
A GaN film doped with 8.2 % Mn was grown by the molecular-beam-epitaxy technique. Magnetization measurements show that this highly Mn-doped GaN film exhibits ferromagnetism above room temperature. It is also revealed that the…
We report the growth of high-quality GaN epitaxial thin films on graphene-coated c-sapphire substrates using pulsed-mode metalorganic vapor-phase epitaxy, together with the fabrication of freestanding GaN films by simple mechanical…
We demonstrate that GaMnAs films grown with As2 have excellent structural, electrical and magnetic properties, comparable or better than similar films grown with As4. Using As2, a Curie temperature of 112K has been achieved, which is…
We report on the observation of photoluminescence (PL) with a narrow 18 meV peak width from molecular beam epitaxy grown MoS$_2$ on graphene/Ir(111). This observation is explained in terms of a weak graphene-MoS$_2$ interaction that…
We prepare NbN thin films by DC magnetron sputtering on [100] GaAs substrates, optimise their quality and demonstrate their use for efficient single photon detection in the near-infrared. The interrelation between the Nb:N content, growth…
We have studied magnetic properties of heavily Mn-doped [(In0.44Ga0.56)0.79Mn0.21]As thin films grown by low-temperature molecular-beam epitaxy (LT-MBE) on InP substrates. The (InGaMn)As with high Mn content (21%) was obtained by decreasing…
Epitaxial films of NdFeAsO were grown on GaAs substrates by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). All elements including oxygen were supplied from solid sources using Knudsen cells. The x-ray diffraction pattern of the film prepared with the…
Thin films of laser molecular-beam epitaxy grown \textit{n}-type Ga-doped ZnO were investigated with respect to their optical properties. Intense room-temperature photoluminescence (PL) in the near-band edge (NBE) region was observed.…
The influence of the growth conditions as well as the device design on the device performance of (GaIn)As/Ga(AsSb)/(GaIn)As "W"-quantum well lasers is investigated. To this purpose, the epitaxy process is scaled to full two inch substrates…
AlN thin films have been grown on Si (100) substrates by reactive ion beam sputter deposition (IBSD) at different substrate temperatures varying from room temperature (RT) to 500oC. Substrate temperature induced microstructural transition…