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The growth of two-dimensional epitaxial materials on industrially relevant substrates is critical for enabling their scalable synthesis and integration into next-generation technologies. Here we present a comprehensive study of the…
Over the past two decades, epitaxial semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have demonstrated very promising properties as sources of single photons and entangled photons on-demand. Among different growth methods, droplet etching epitaxy has…
Precise control of doping in single nanowires (NWs) is essential for the development of NW-based devices. Here, we investigate a series of MBE-grown GaAs NWs with Be (p-type) and Si (n-type) doping using high-resolution cathodoluminescence…
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Temperature-dependent reflectivity and photoluminescence spectra are studied for undoped ultra-wide 150 nm and 250 nm GaAs quantum wells. It is shown that spectral features previously attributed to a size quantization of exciton motion in…
We study Bragg scattering at 1D atomic lattices. Cold atoms are confined by optical dipole forces at the antinodes of a standing wave generated inside a laser-driven cavity. The atoms arrange themselves into an array of lens-shaped layers…
Diffusion-enhanced and desorption-limited growth regimes of Ga-assisted GaAs nanowires were identified. In the latter regime, the number of vertical NWs with a narrow length distribution was increased by raising the growth temperature. The…
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The growth of wafer-scale van der Waals (vdW) thin films and heterostructures by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) is important for future applications in quantum technologies, next generation optoelectronic devices, and fundamental physics…
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GaAs nanowires and GaAs-Fe3Si core-shell nanowire structures were grown by molecular-beam epitaxy on oxidized Si(111) substrates and characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Ga droplets were…
Two dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) realized at GaAs/AlGaAs single interfaces by molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) reach mobilities of about 15 million cm^2/Vs if the AlGaAs alloy is grown after the GaAs. Surprisingly, the mobilities may drop…
The initial steps of MBE growth of GaAs on beta 2-reconstructed GaAs(001) are investigated by performing total energy and electronic structure calculations using density functional theory and a repeated slab model of the surface. We study…
We report GaAs/AlGaAs nanowires in the one-dimensional (1D) quantum limit. The ultrathin wurtzite GaAs cores between 20-40\,nm induce large confinement energies of several tens of meV, allowing us to experimentally resolve up to four well…
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