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To fully deploy the potential of semiconductor nanocrystal films as low-cost electronic materials, a better understanding of the amount of dopants required to make their conductivity metallic is needed. In bulk semiconductors, the critical…

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Using scanning tunneling microscopy-induced luminescence (STML), the optical properties of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors may be investigated at the nanoscale. This is possible because the tunneling current under the tip is an…

Drift-diffusion model is an indispensable modeling tool to understand the carrier dynamics (transport, recombination, and collection) and simulate practical-efficiency of solar cells (SCs) through taking into account various carrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-20 Xingang Ren , Zishuai Wang , Wei E. I. Sha , Wallace C. H. Choy

The photoelectric effect has a sister process relevant in optoelectronics called internal photoemission. Here an electron is photoemitted from a metal into a semiconductor. While the photoelectric effect takes place within less than 100…

It is demonstrated that the use of a Micrometric Thin $^{39}$K vapor Cell (MTC) and Saturated Absorption spectroscopy (SA) allows to form narrow atomic lines in transmission spectrum without unwanted Cross-Over (CO) resonances. Another…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Armen Sargsyan , Rodolphe Momier , Claude Leroy , David Sarkisyan

Despite the widespread use of Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) for observing the structure of materials at the atomic scale, a detailed understanding of some relevant electron beam damage mechanisms is limited. Recent…

Imaging of the optical properties of individual nanosystems beyond fluorescence can provide a wealth of information. However, the minute signals for absorption and dispersion are challenging to observe, and only specialized techniques…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-10 Matthias Mader , Jakob Reichel , Theodor W. Hänsch , David Hunger

We describe an approach to the high-fidelity measurement of a superconducting qubit using an on-chip microwave photon counter. The protocol relies on the transient response of a dispersively coupled measurement resonator to map the state of…

During the dielectric breakdown process of thin solid-state nanopores, the application of high voltages may cause the formation of multi-nanopores on one chip, which number and sizes are important for their applications. Here, simulations…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Yinghua Qiu , Long Ma , Zhe Liu , Hongwen Zhang , Bowen Ai , Xinman Tu

Fundamental understanding of biological pathways requires minimally invasive nanoscopic optical resolution imaging. Many approaches to high-resolution imaging rely on localization of single emitters, such as fluorescent molecule or quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Shuo Li , Wenchao Li , Vladislav V. Yakovlev , Allison Kealy , Andrew D. Greentree

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy measures how a single electron with definite energy propagates between a sample surface and the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope. In the simplest description, the differential conductance measured is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Mikko M. Ervasti , Fabian Schulz , Peter Liljeroth , Ari Harju

Diffuse optical imaging (DOI) offers valuable insights into scattering mediums, but the quest for high-resolution imaging often requires dense sampling strategies, leading to higher imaging errors and lengthy acquisition times. This work…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-07 Ben Wiesel , Shlomi Arnon

We propose a plasmonic modulator with semiconductor gain material for optoelectronic integrated circuits. We analyze properties of a finite-thickness metal-semiconductor-metal (F-MSM) waveguide to be utilized as an ultra-compact and fast…

Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors (DMS) doped with a small concentration of magnetic impurities inducing ferromagnetic DMSs have attracted a lot of attention in the few last years. In particular, DMS based on III-V and II-VI semiconductors…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-31 L. B. Drissi

The low frequency quantum transport properties of a three-probe mesoscopic conductor are studied using B\"uttiker's AC transport formalism. The static transmission coefficients and emittance matrix of the system were computed by explicitly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Qingrong Zheng , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

Photocurrent spectroscopy is a versatile technique to identify and understand the optoelectronic dynamics occurring in semiconductor nanowires. Conventional photocurrent spectroscopy allows to explore the morphology and material properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Nadine Erhard , Alexander Holleitner

Numerous studies have reported performance enhancement of a thermophotovoltaic (TPV) system when an emitter is separated by nanoscale gaps from a TPV cell. Although a $p$-$n$-junction-based TPV cell has been widely used for the near-field…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Jaeman Song , Mikyung Lim , Seung S. Lee , Bong Jae Lee

In this review I discuss the application of scanning magnetic imaging to fundamental studies of superconductors, concentrating on three scanning magnetic microscopies - scanning SQUID microscopy (SSM), scanning Hall bar microscopy (SHM),…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 J. R. Kirtley

We present a domain decomposition approach for the simulation of charge transport in heterojunction semiconductors. The problem is characterized by a large variation of primary variables across an interface region of a size much smaller…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Timothy Costa , David Foster , Malgorzata Peszynska

The results obtained in laboratory tests, using scintillator bars read by silicon photomultipliers are reported. The present approach is the first step for designing a precision tracking system to be placed inside a free magnetized volume…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-04 S. Cecchini , I. D'Antone , L. Degli Esposti , I. Lax , G. Mandrioli , N. Mauri , L. Pasqualini , L. Patrizii , M. Pozzato , G. Sirri , M. Tenti