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SrVO3 thin films with a high figure of merit for applications as transparent conductors were crystallized from amorphous layers using solid phase epitaxy (SPE). Epitaxial SrVO3 films crystallized on SrTiO3 using SPE exhibit a room…
Superconductivity was recently found in the simple tetragonal FeSe structure. Recent studies suggest that FeSe is unconventional, with the symmetry of the superconducting pairing state still under debate. To tackle these problems, clean…
The combination of graphene with silicon in hybrid devices has attracted attention extensively over the last decade. Most of such devices were proposed for photonics and radiofrequency applications. In this work, we present a unique…
Real time electron microscopy observation on morphological changes in gold nano structures deposited on Si (100) surfaces as a function of annealing temperatures has been reported. Two types of interfaces with the substrate silicon were…
We report on fabrication and characterization of the organic field effect transistors (OFETs) on the surface of single crystals of rubrene. The parylene polymer film has been used as the gate insulator. At room temperature, these OFETs…
We report on single crystal high mobility organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) prepared on prefabricated substrates using a "flip-crystal" approach. This method minimizes crystal handling and avoids direct processing of the crystal that…
Metal mixed polymers are a cheap and effective way to produce flexible metals and superconductors. As part of an on-going effort to learn how to tune the properties of these systems with ion implantation, we present a study of the…
Vanadium silicide (V$_3$Si) is a promising superconductor for integration with silicon-based electronics, however the interfacial growth kinetics have a strong influence on the resulting superconducting properties and are not yet fully…
The oxidation behavior of W-Zr thin-film metallic glasses (TFMGs) with 32, 48 and 61 at.% Zr, prepared by dc magnetron co-sputtering, was comprehensively studied after annealing in synthetic air. The study focuses on the effect of the…
We report a scalable approach for fabricating single-crystal barium titanate (BTO) thin films through spalling from bulk substrates. Conventional thin film growth techniques often face challenges in achieving high-quality single crystal…
SiO2 with the alpha-quartz structure is one of the most popular piezoelectrics. It is widely used in crystal oscillators, bulk acoustic wave (BAW) devices, surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices, and so on. GeO2 can also be crystallized into…
Parameters determining the performance of the crystalline oxides zirconia (ZrO_2) and hafnia (HfO_2) as gate insulators in nanometric Si electronics are estimated via ab initio calculations of the energetics, dielectric properties, and band…
The demand for the three-dimensional (3D) integration of electronic components is on a steady rise. The through-silicon-via (TSV) technique emerges as the only viable method for integrating single-crystalline device components in a 3D…
Being one of the strongest materials, ternary TiSiN exhibits a very interesting family of binary transition metal nitride and silicide systems. A novel technique to fabricate morphologically fascinating nano and micro structures of TiSiN is…
We report strain engineering of superconductivity in RuO$_2$ singlecrystalline films, which are epitaxially grown on rutile TiO$_2$ and MgF$_2$ substrates with various crystal orientations. Systematic mappings between the superconducting…
We report on organic field-effect transistors with unprecedented resistance against gate bias stress. The single crystal and thin-film transistors employ the organic gate dielectric Cytop(TM). This fluoropolymer is highly water repellent…
We report the growth of Si nanostructures, either as thin films or nanoparticles, on graphene substrates. The Si nanostructures are shown to be single crystalline, air stable and oxidation resistive, as indicated by the observation of a…
Silicon on insulator photonics has offered a versatile platform for the recent development of integrated optomechanical circuits. However, there are some constraints such as the high cost of the wafers and limitation to a single physical…
Molecular self-assembly has been extensively used for surface modification of metals and oxides for a variety of applications, including molecular and organic electronics. One of the goals of this research is to learn how the electronic…
Piezoelectric phononic crystal resonators (PCRs) are a promising platform for acoustic quantum processing, yet their performance is currently limited by coupling to an ensemble of saturable two-level system (TLS) defects within the…