Publications related to Trimethylgallium

Growth and Doping Mechanisms of III-V Nanostructures by Selective Area Epitaxy

Selective area epitaxy (SAE), applied to semiconductor growth, allows tailored fabrication of intricate structures at the nanoscale with enhanced properties and functionalities. In the field of nanowires (NWs), it adds scalability by enabling the fabricati ...

EPFL2024

Voltage-driven Chemical Reactions Enable the Synthesis of Tunable Liquid Ga – Metal Nanoparticles

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Krishna Kumar, Coline Marie Agathe Boulanger, Valery Okatenko, Alexander Nicolas Chen

Nanosized particles of liquid metals are emerging materials which hold promise for applications spanning from microelectronics to catalysis. Yet, the knowledge of their chemical reactivity is largely unknown. Here, we study the reactivity of liquid Ga and ...

2023

Voltage-driven Reactivity of Liquid Ga and CuGa Nanoparticles for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction and Synthesis

Valery Okatenko

The rising atmospheric level of carbon dioxide, CO2, contributes to climate change and poses urgent need to find scalable solutions both to decrease its emissions and to be able to recycle it, if the goals of Paris Agreement to limit the temperature rise a ...

EPFL2023

GaN growth on ScAlMgO4 substrates via thermally-dewetted thin Al films

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Alessandro Floriduz

In this note, we demonstrate the high-temperature growth of GaN on ScAlMgO4 substrates by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy when a thin Al film is deposited ex situ on the ScAlMgO4 surface, prior to GaN growth. Mirror-like high-quality GaN epitaxial layers ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Direct high-temperature growth of single-crystalline GaN on ScAlMgO4 substrates by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Alessandro Floriduz

In this note, we demonstrate direct high-temperature growth of single-crystalline GaN on c-plane ScAlMgO4 substrates by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition, without using low-temperature buffers. We found that a trimethylaluminium preflow was crucial to ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Modeling the electrical characteristic of InGaN/GaN blue-violet LED structure under electrical stress

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Camille Haller

The role of deep defects and their physical origin in InGaN/GaN LED are still widely investigated and debated, in particular their impact on the electrical and optical characteristics and on the reliability of the device. In this paper we evaluate the elec ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Composition and Interface Engineering of High Performing Perovskite Solar Cells

Mousa Abdulla M E Abuhelaiqa

Perovskite solar cells have been established as a disruptive technology in the domain of photo-voltaics. Their facile, low-temperature processing and high-power conversion efficiency make them stand-out among other mature solar technologies. The performanc ...

EPFL2022

Transferable machine-learning models of complex materials: the case of GaAs

Giulio Imbalzano

Molecular simulations allow to investigate the behaviour of materials at the atomistic level, shedding light on phenomena that cannot be directly observed in experiments. Accurate results can be obtained with ab initio methods, while simulations of large-s ...

EPFL2021

3D Ordering at the Liquid-Solid Polar Interface of Nanowires

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Michele Ceriotti, Cécile Hébert, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Martin George Friedl, Luca Francaviglia, Mahdi Zamani, Nicolas Tappy, Giulio Imbalzano, Sara Marti Sanchez, Lea Ghisalberti

The nature of the liquid-solid interface determines the characteristics of a variety of physical phenomena, including catalysis, electrochemistry, lubrication, and crystal growth. Most of the established models for crystal growth are based on macroscopic t ...

Wiley2020

Electroluminescence of Single InGaN/GaN Micropyramids

Hua Zhang, Gwénolé Jean Jacopin

The results of the fabrication of technological regimes of formation and the study of the optical properties of light emitting diodes (LED) micropyramids based on InGaN/GaN are presented. The structures were formed by the method of Metalorganic vapour-phas ...

PLEIADES PUBLISHING INC2019

Low-temperature growth of n(++)-GaN by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition to achieve low-resistivity tunnel junctions on blue light emitting diodes

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Pirouz Sohi, Yao Chen, Mauro Mosca

We report on low-resistivity GaN tunnel junctions (TJ) on blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Si-doped n(++)-GaN layers are grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition directly on LED epiwafers. Low growth temperature (

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Fabrication and Study of Optical Properties of LEDs Based on GaN Micropyramids with a Ni/Au/Graphene Semi-Transparent Contact

Hua Zhang

The results of studies of technological conditions of formation of LEDs on the basis of an InGaN/GaN micropyramid in the core/shell geometry using a semi-transparent Ni/Au/graphene contact have been presented. The structures have been formed by the method ...

2018

Redox melts formed by copper (i)/(ii) complexes as charge transfer and charge storage materials

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Yiming Cao, Marina Freitag, Marko Stojanovic

The present invention relates to a redox copper complex melt comprising a metalorganic complex of formula (I) [Cu (La) n ] (I), wherein n is an integer 2; and La is a bidentate ligand selected from a ligand according to any one of formulae (1) and (2): ...

2018

Spin waves with large decay length and few 100 nm wavelengths in thin yttrium iron garnet grown at the wafer scale

Dirk Grundler

Using conventional coplanar waveguides (CPWs), we excited spin waves with a wavelength λ down to 310 nm in a 200 nm thin yttrium iron garnet film grown by liquid phase epitaxy. Spin-wave transmission was detected between CPWs that we separated by up to 2 m ...

American Institute of Physics2017

Self-formation of hexagonal nanotemplates for growth of pyramidal quantum dots by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy on patterned substrates

Elyahou Kapon, Alok Rudra, Benjamin Dwir, Romain Carron, Pascal Gallo, Alessandro Surrente

We demonstrate the self-formation of hexagonal nanotemplates on GaAs (111)B substrates patterned with arrays of inverted tetrahedral pyramids during metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy and its role in producing high-symmetry, site-controlled quantum dots (QD ...

Tsinghua Univ Press2016

Optical properties of nearly lattice-matched GaN/(Al,In)N quantum wells

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Gwénolé Jean Jacopin, Gediminas Liaugaudas

We report a systematic study of the photoluminescence (PL) properties of a series of nearly lattice-matched (LM) GaN/(Al,In)N single quantum well (SQW) samples, with well thickness ranging from 1.5 to 5 nm, grown by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. Temper ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Optimization of NH₃-MBE grown p-doped (Al)GaN layers and their implementation in long wavelength laser diodes and tunnel junctions

Marco Malinverni

Over the last two decades III-nitride optoelectronic devices have experienced an impressive evolution in terms of performance. However, their potential is far from being fully exploited. Although they offer bandgaps from the deep UV to the infrared spectra ...

EPFL2015

Dilute-Nitride Low-Dimensional Nanostructures Formed on Non-Planar Substrates

Romain Carron

The properties of semiconductors heterostructures of nanoscopic dimensions change from that of bulk material according to the rules of quantum mechanics. The planar quantum wells (QWs) are widely used in various diode and laser devices thanks to the relati ...

EPFL2013

Comparison of vacancy and antisite defects in GaAs and InGaAs through hybrid functionals

Alfredo Pasquarello, Hannu-Pekka Komsa

The formation energies and charge transition levels of vacancy and antisite defects in GaAs and In0.5Ga0.5As are calculated through hybrid density functionals. In As-rich conditions, the As antisite is the most stable defect in both GaAs and InGaAs, except ...

2012

Implementation of spatio-time-resolved cathodoluminescence spectroscopy for studying local carrier dynamics in a low dislocation density m-plane InGaN epilayer grown on a freestanding GaN substrate

Nicolas Grandjean, Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Jean-Daniel Ganière, Pierre Michel Corfdir, Munehito Kagaya

Spatio-time-resolvedcathodoluminescence (STRCL) spectroscopy isimplemented to assess the local carrier dynamics in a 70 nm-thick, very low threading dislocation (TD) density, pseudomorphic m-plane In GaN epilayer grown on a freestanding GaN substrate by me ...

2011