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Selective area epitaxy of GaAs: the unintuitive role of feature size and pitch

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Lucas Güniat, Didem Dede, Valerio Piazza, Martin George Friedl, Elif Nur Dayi, Nicholas Paul Morgan, Akshay Balgarkashi, Vladimir Dubrovskii

Selective area epitaxy (SAE) provides the path for scalable fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures in a device-compatible configuration. In the current paradigm, SAE is understood as localized epitaxy, and is modelled by combining planar and self-asse ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Spatial Modulation of Vibrational and Luminescence Properties of Monolayer MoS & x2082; Using a GaAs Nanowire Array

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Lucas Güniat, Didem Dede, Valerio Piazza, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Wonjong Kim, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Akshay Balgarkashi

The integration of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with non-planar substrates such as nanopillars provides a way to spatially modify the optical properties mainly through the localized strain. Similar studies to date have utilized insulating SiO2 n ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Nanopillars Enabling III-V Integration on Si (100) and (111)

Lucas Güniat

The majority of current semiconductor technologies are built on Si (100), such as the CMOS technology, or conventional solar cell devices. III-V semiconductors offer great perspectives given their high carrier mobility and direct band gap. However their in ...

EPFL2021

Doping challenges and pathways to industrial scalability of III–V nanowire arrays

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Lucas Güniat, Valerio Piazza, Wonjong Kim

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have been investigated for decades, but their application into commercial products is still difficult to achieve, with triggering causes related to the fabrication cost and structure complexity. Dopant control at the nanoscale ...

2021

Simultaneous Selective Area Growth of Wurtzite and Zincblende Self-Catalyzed GaAs Nanowires on Silicon

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Lucas Güniat, Valerio Piazza, Wonjong Kim, Vladimir Dubrovskii

Selective area epitaxy constitutes a mainstream method to obtain reproducible nanomaterials. As a counterpart, self-assembly allows their growth without costly substrate preparation, with the drawback of uncontrolled positioning. We propose a mixed approac ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2021

Facet-driven formation of axial and radial In(Ga)As clusters in GaAs nanowires

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Lucas Güniat, Santhanu Panikar Ramanandan, Didem Dede, Martin George Friedl, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Wonjong Kim, Nicolas Tappy, Akshay Balgarkashi

Embedding quantum dots in nanowires (NWs) constitutes one promising building block for quantum photonic technologies. Earlier attempts to grow InAs quantum dots on GaAs nanowires were based on the Stranski-Krastanov growth mechanism. Here, we propose a nov ...

2020

Remote Doping of Scalable Nanowire Branches

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Lucas Güniat, Didem Dede, Martin George Friedl, Wonjong Kim, Nicholas Paul Morgan

Selective-area epitaxy provides a path toward high crystal quality, scalable, complex nanowire networks. These high-quality networks could be used in topological quantum computing as well as in ultrafast photodetection schemes. Control of the carrier densi ...

2020

Facet-driven formation of axial and radial In(Ga)As clusters in GaAs nanowires

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Lucas Güniat, Santhanu Panikar Ramanandan, Didem Dede, Martin George Friedl, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Wonjong Kim, Nicolas Tappy, Nicholas Paul Morgan, Akshay Balgarkashi

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2020

Impact of oxygen content in powders on the morphology of the laser molten tracks in preparation for additive manufacturing of silicon

Patrik Willi Hoffmann, Lucas Güniat, Marc Leparoux

Powder additive pulsed Nd:YAG laser (wavelength 1064 nm), with the aim of preparing AM of such material. The influence of oxygen content in the initial silicon powders on the continuous tracks morphology was investigated. It was found that the initial oxyg ...

ELSEVIER2020

Vapor Phase Growth of Semiconductor Nanowires: Key Developments and Open Questions

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Lucas Güniat

Nanowires are filamentary crystals with a tailored diameter that can be obtained using a plethora of different synthesis techniques. In this review, we focus on the vapor phase, highlighting the most influential achievements along with a historical perspec ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019