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On-chip integration of two-dimensional (2D) materials offers great potential for the realization of novel optoelectronic devices in different photonic platforms. In particular, indium selenide (InSe) is a very promising 2D material due to…
Gallium selenide (GaSe) is a novel two-dimensional material, which belongs to the layered III-VIA semiconductors family and attracted interest recently as it displays single-photon emitters at room temperature and strong optical…
The photosensitivity of silicon is inherently very low in the visible electromagnetic spectrum, and it drops rapidly beyond 800 nm in near-infrared wavelengths. Herein, we have experimentally demonstrated a technique utilizing…
The new generation of two-dimensional (2D) materials has shown a broad range of applications for optical and electronic devices. Understanding the properties of these materials when integrated with the more traditional three-dimensional…
All epitaxial GeSn-on-insulator (GeSnOI) heterostructures have been realized by conventional molecular beam epitaxy of both GeSn and a thin Gd2O3 insulating layer, on Si(111) substrates. Analysis of the crystal and surface quality by…
The thermodynamic stability of germanium tin $\mathrm{Ge_{1-x}Sn_x}$ alloys is investigated across the composition range $0 \le x \le 1$ by applying density functional theory (DFT) together with the cluster expansion formalism (CE). It is…
Here we report the development of high-efficiency microscale GaAs laser power converters, and their successful transfer printing onto silicon substrates, presenting a unique, high power, low-cost and integrated power supply solution for…
Germanium-on-Silicon (Ge-on-Si) is a promising, CMOS-compatible platform for integrated terahertz (THz) photonics, offering a low-cost alternative to III-V semiconductors. A primary challenge for Ge-based photoconductive antennas (PCAs),…
Graphene has emerged as an ultrafast optoelectronic material for on-chip photodetector applications. The 2D nature of graphene enables its facile integration with complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) microelectronics and silicon…
A fast silicon-graphene hybrid plasmonic waveguide photodetectors beyond 1.55 {\mu}m is proposed and realized by introducing an ultra-thin wide silicon-on-insulator ridge core region with a narrow metal cap. With this novel design, the…
The performance of strained silicon as the channel material for transistors has plateaued. Motivated by increasing charge-carrier mobility within the device channel to improve transistor performance, germanium (Ge) is considered as an…
Graphene has emerged as a novel platform for opto-electronic applications and photodetector, but the inefficient conversion from light to current has so far been an important roadblock. The main challenge has been to increase the light…
Gray tin, also known as {\alpha}-Sn, has been attracting research interest recent years due to its topological nontrivial properties predicted theoretically. The Dirac linear band dispersion has been proved experimentally by angle resolved…
Single photon emitters play a central role in many photonic quantum technologies. A promising class of single photon emitters consists of atomic color centers in wide-bandgap crystals, such as diamond silicon carbide and hexagonal boron…
Germanium-based oxides such as rutile GeO2 are garnering attention owing to their wide band gaps and the prospects for ambipolar doping for application in high-power devices. Here, we present the use of germanium tetraisopropoxide (GTIP)…
Rutile Sn$_{1-x}$Ge$_x$O$_{2}$ alloys are promising materials for high-power electronic applications due to their dopability and tunable ultra-wide band gaps. We use first-principles density functional theory and statistical mechanics to…
We present germanium microdisk optical resonators under a large biaxial tensile strain using a CMOS-compatible fabrication process. Biaxial tensile strain of ~0.7% is achieved by means of a stress concentration technique that allows the…
The Geiger photodiodes, or single photon avalanche photodiodes, for a radiation tolerant solid-state photomultiplier (SSPM) are being designed using Aluminum Gallium Arsenide (AlGaAs) and are less than 1 micrometer thick. Studies on the…
Broadband mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy applications could greatly benefit from today's well-developed, highly scalable silicon photonics technology; however, this platform lacks broadband transparency due to its reliance on absorptive…
Atomically thin materials such as graphene are uniquely responsive to charge transfer from adjacent materials, making them ideal charge transport layers in phototransistor devices. Effective implementation of organic semiconductors as a…