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The hot-wall metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), previously shown to enable superior III-nitride material quality and high performance devices, has been explored for Mg doping of GaN. We have investigated the Mg incorporation…
Capitalizing on the directed nature of the atomic fluxes in molecular beam epitaxy, we propose and demonstrate the sequential directional deposition of lateral (In,Ga)N shells on GaN nanowires. In this approach, a sub-monolayer thickness of…
We study the nucleation of GaN islands grown by plasma-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy on AlN(0001) in a Stranski-Krastanov mode. In particular, we assess the variation of their height and density as a function of GaN coverage. We show that…
The amount of ionized Mn acceptors in various p-type Mn-doped GaAs epilayers has been evaluated by electrochemical capacitance-voltage measurements, and has been compared systematically with concentrations of incorporated Mn atoms and holes…
GaAs:Mn nanowires were obtained on GaAs(001) and GaAs(111)B substrates by molecular beam epitaxial growth of (Ga,Mn)As at conditions leading to MnAs phase separation. Their density is proportional to the density of catalyzing MnAs…
We report micro-photoluminescence studies of single GaN/AlN quantum dots grown along the (0001) crystal axis by molecular beam epitaxy on Si(111) substrates. The emission lines exhibit a linear polarization along the growth plane, but with…
Infrared spectroscopic ellipsometry is applied to investigate the free-charge carrier properties of Mg-doped InN films. Two representative sets of In-polar InN grown by molecular beam epitaxy with Mg concentrations ranging from…
We present a conceptually novel approach to achieve selective area epitaxy of GaN nanowires. The approach is based on the fact that these nanostructures do not form in plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy on structurally and chemically…
High-quality layers of the (Ga,Mn)(Bi,As) quaternary compound semiconductor have been grown by the low-temperature molecular-beam epitaxy technique. An effect of Bi incorporation into the (Ga,Mn)As ferromagnetic semiconductor and the…
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…
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…
In the present work, we perform a systematic investigation on p-type codoping in (Ga,Mn)As. Through gradually increasing Zn doping concentration, the hole concentration increases, which should theoretically lead to an increase of the Curie…
The control over the structural homogeneity is of paramount importance for ternary nitride compounds - the second most important semiconducting material-class after Si, due to its unrivalled applicability in optoelectronics, and high…
We report on a combined theoretical and experimental determination of the Fermi level position in wurtzite Ga$_{1-x}$Mn$_{x}$N films with $x=4\%$ and $x=10\%$ as grown by molecular beam epitaxy. By means of ellipsometric measurements the…
Formation of MnAs quantum dots in a regular ring-like distribution has been found on MBE-grown (GaMn)As surfaces after low-temperature annealing under As capping. The Mn was supplied by out-diffusing Mn interstitials from (GaMn)As. With 5…
Heteroepitaxial Ge0.98Mn0.02 quantum dots on Si (001) were grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The standard Ge wetting layer-hut-dome-superdome sequence was observed, with no indicators of second phase formation in the surface morphology. We…
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…
Polarization induced degenerate $n$-type doping with electron concentrations up to $\sim$10$^{20}$\,cm$^{-3}$ is achieved in graded Al$_{x}$Ga$_{1-x}$N layers ($x$: 0\%$\rightarrow$37\%) grown on unintentionally doped and on $n$-doped…
The growth of NiO on GaN(00.1) substrates by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy under oxygen rich conditions was investigated at growth temperatures between 100 $^{\circ}$C and 850 $^{\circ}$C. Epitaxial growth of NiO(111) with two…
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…