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van der Waals Epitaxy of Co10–xZn10–yMnx+y Thin Films: Chemical Composition Engineering and Magnetic Properties

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Dirk Grundler, Ping Che, Mohammad Hamdi, Andrea Mucchietto, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Rajrupa Paul

Topologically protected magnetic skyrmions have raised interest for future spintronics applications. One of the main challenges is the synthesis of room temperature skyrmion-hosting materials that are compatible with thin-film technology. We present an app ...

2021

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

Showcasing the optical properties of monocrystalline zinc phosphide thin films as an earth-abundant photovoltaic absorber

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Mahdi Zamani, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Rajrupa Paul, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Léa Buswell

Zinc phosphide, Zn3P2, is a semiconductor with a high absorption coefficient in the spectral range relevant for single junction photovoltaic applications. It is made of elements abundant in the Earth's crust, opening up a pathway for large deployment of so ...

2022

Resonances on GaN-on-Si Epitaxies: A Source of Output Capacitance Losses in Power HEMTs

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Minghua Zhu, Riyaz Mohammed Abdul Khadar, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani

GaN-on-Si high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) exhibit excellent properties for efficient power conversion. Nevertheless, a considerable energy loss associated with the charging and discharging of the output capacitance (COSS) in these transistors se ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Crystalline Order in Compound Semiconductors in Nanoscale Structures and Thin Films

Mahdi Zamani

Semiconductors materials and devices are essential building blocks for many of the technologies deeply embedded in modern life. Improving the performance of semiconductor devices requires a deeper understanding of the fundamental mechanisms controlling the ...

EPFL2021

Synthesis, structural and magnetic characterization of thin films of the chiral magnets CoZnMn and FeGe

Anna Kúkol'ová

Skyrmions are topologically protected nanometer-sized magnetic vortices that have sparked interest for future spintronics applications aiming at high-density, high-speed and low-power consuming magnetic memory devices. One type of skyrmions appears in non- ...

EPFL2021

Superconducting 2D NbS2 Grown Epitaxially by Chemical Vapor Deposition

Aleksandra Radenovic, Andras Kis, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi, Michal Daniel Macha, Yanfei Zhao, Guilherme Migliato Marega, Zhenyu Wang, Cheol Yeon Cheon, Hyungoo Ji

Metallic two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are attracting great attention because of their interesting low-temperature properties such as superconductivity, magnetism, and charge density waves (CDW). However, further studies and ...

2021

Scalable Nanowire Networks: Growth and Functionality

Martin George Friedl

With the rise of quantum computing and recent experiments into topological quantum computers come exciting new opportunities for III-V semiconductor quantum nanostructures. In this thesis, we explore the scalable fabrication of patterned arrays and branche ...

EPFL2020

Increasing Functionality of III-V Nanowires on Silicon Substrates

Wonjong Kim

Progress in nanotechnology, including fabrication and characterization tools, opened up the unprecedented low dimensional materials era, where we can manipulate and structure matter on a size scale that we could not reach before. Due to many interesting pr ...

EPFL2020

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

Growth and characterisation of earth-abundant semiconductor nanostructures for solar energy harvesting

Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall

Zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) is a compound semiconductor based on earth-abundant elements with functional properties ideal for solar cell applications. Cheap, abundant, and renewable energy sources are increasingly imperative due to the imminent threat posed by ...

EPFL2020

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