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We report epitaxial growth and characterization of GaN thin films on sapphire (0001) substrates using low temperature GaN intermediate layer by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PA-MBE) technique. As grown and annealed GaN thin films…
We report on the growth of epitaxial ZnO thin films and ZnO based heterostructures on sapphire substrates by laser molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). We first discuss some recent developments in laser-MBE such as flexible ultra-violet laser beam…
We report on the fabrication of pseudomorphic wurtzite GaMnN grown on GaN with Mn concentrations up to 10% using molecular beam epitaxy. According to Rutherford backscattering the Mn ions are mainly at the Ga-substitutional positions, and…
Solid-melt interfaces play a pivotal role in governing crystal growth and metal-mediated epitaxy of gallium nitride (GaN) and other semiconductor materials. Using atomistic simulations based on machine-learning interatomic potentials…
ZnGeN2 and other heterovalent ternary semiconductors have important potential applications in optoelectronics, but ordering of the cation sublattice, which can affect the band gap, lattice parameters, and phonons, is not yet well…
We report the growth of high-quality triangular GaN nanomesas, 30-nm thick, on the C-face of 4H-SiC using nano selective area growth (NSAG) with patterned epitaxial graphene grown on SiC as an embedded mask. NSAG alleviates the problems of…
An in situ study of the epitaxial growth of SmN thin films on Ga-polar GaN (0001)templates by molecular beam epitaxy is reported. Using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy we found that Ga segregates at the surface during the first stages of…
We demonstrate that GaN formed in a Nanowall Network (NwN) morphology can overcome fundamental limitations in optoelectronic devices, and enable high light extraction and effective Mg incorporation for efficient p-GaN. We report the growth…
GaN based high electron mobility transistors show promise in numerous device applications which elicits the need for accurate models of bulk, surface, and interface electronic properties. We detail here a hybrid density functional theory…
The present paper is dedicated to the structural study of crystallographic peculiarities appearing in epitaxial films of metastable epsilon iron oxide ($\varepsilon$-Fe$_2$O$_3$) grown by pulsed laser deposition onto a semiconductor GaN…
ZnGeN$_2$ offers a low-cost alternative to InGaN with the potential for bandgap tuning to span the green gap using cation site ordering. The addition of oxygen on the anion site creates an additional degree of electronic tunability. Here,…
We demonstrate an all-epitaxial and scalable growth approach to fabricate single-crystalline GaN nanowires on graphene by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. As substrate, we explore several types of epitaxial graphene layer structures…
Comprehensive investigations on ZnSe/GaAs and GaAs/ZnSe interfaces were carried out by photoluminescence (PL) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), as a part of realizing high quality ZnSe-GaAs (100) hetero-valent structures (HS). The…
Group II-IV nitrides have recently emerged as a novel class of semiconductors composed of earth-abundant elements. Owing to their tunable bandgaps, comparable to those of III-nitrides, these materials are attractive candidates for replacing…
Heteroepitaxy conventionally relies on rigid crystalline substrates, implicitly assuming that lattice and thermal mismatch must be accommodated within the epitaxial layer, leading to residual strain and defects that worsen with increasing…
The self-assembly of heteroepitaxial GaN nanowires using either molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) or metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) mostly results in wafer-scale ensembles with ultrahigh ($>10$ $\mu$m$^{-2}$) or ultralow ($<1$…
A free-standing bulk gallium nitride layer with a thickness of 365 $\mu$m and a diameter of 50 mm was obtained by hydride vapor phase epitaxy on a sapphire substrate with a carbon buffer layer. The carbon buffer layer was deposited by…
We report a new biphasic crystalline wurtzite/zinc-blende homostructure in gallium nitride nanowires. Cathodoluminescence was used to quantitatively measure the wurtzite and zinc-blende band gaps. High resolution transmission electron…
Several ten $\mu$m GaN have been deposited on a silicon substrate using a two-step hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) process. The substrates have been covered by AlN layers and GaN nanostructures grown by plasma-assisted molecular-beam…
GaN(0001) surfaces with Ga- and H-adsorbates are fundamental stages for epitaxial growth of semiconductor thin films. We explore stable surface structures with nanometer scale by the density-functional calculations combined with Bayesian…