Publications by Eleonora Russo

Segregation scheme of indium in AlGaInAs nanowire shells

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Eleonora Russo, Martin George Friedl, Heidi Andrea Potts, Luca Francaviglia, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Sara Marti Sanchez

2019

Polarization response of nanowires a la carte

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin Heiss, Esther Alarcon Llado, Eleonora Russo, Alberto Casadei, Francesca Amaduzzi

Thanks to their special interaction with light, semiconductor nanowires have opened new avenues in photonics, quantum optics and solar energy harvesting. One of the major challenges for their full technological deployment has been their strong polarization ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

High Yield of GaAs Nanowire Arrays on Si Mediated by the Pinning and Contact Angle of Ga

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna Dalmau Mallorquí, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Sonia Conesa Boj, Eleonora Russo, Federico Matteini, Jelena Vukajlovic Plestina, Heidi Andrea Potts

GaAs nanowire arrays on Silicon offer great perspectives in the :optoeleetronics and solar cell industry. To fulfill this potential, gold-free growth in predetermined positions should be achieved. Ga-assisted growth of GaAs nano-wires in the form of array ...

American Chemical Society2015

Bottom-up engineering of InAs at the nanoscale: From V-shaped nanomembranes to nanowires

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna Dalmau Mallorquí, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Sonia Conesa Boj, Eleonora Russo, Ignasi Canales Mundet

The ability to rationally tune the morphology of nanostructures is a fundamental milestone in nanoscale engineering. In particular, the possibility to switch between different shapes within the same material system represents a further step in the developm ...

Elsevier2015

Growth mechanisms of III-V semiconductor nanostructures on silicon

Eleonora Russo

The aim of this thesis is to understand the dynamics of the growth of catalyst-free III-V semiconductor nanostructures on silicon substrates, focusing the attention mainly on the early stages of growths. A detailed understanding of this first phase of the ...

EPFL2015

III-V nanowire arrays: growth and light interaction

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin Heiss, Anna Dalmau Mallorquí, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Sonia Conesa Boj, Esther Alarcon Llado, Eleonora Russo, Federico Matteini

Semiconductor nanowire arrays are reproducible and rational platforms for the realization of high performing designs of light emitting diodes and photovoltaic devices. In this paper we present an overview of the growth challenges of III-V nanowire arrays o ...

Institute of Physics2014

Photonic-Plasmonic Coupling of GaAs Single Nanowires to Optical Nanoantennas

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin Heiss, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Eleonora Russo, Alberto Casadei, Federico Matteini

We successfully demonstrate the plasmonic coupling between metal nanoantennas and individual GaAs nanowires (NWs). In particular, by using dark-field scattering and second harmonic excitation spectroscopy in partnership with analytical and full-vector FDTD ...

American Chemical Society2014

Tuning the g-factor of neutral and charged excitons confined to self-assembled (Al,Ga)As shell quantum dots

Yannik Fontana, Pierre Michel Corfdir, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin Heiss, Eleonora Russo

We study the neutral exciton (X) and charged exciton (CX) transitions from (Al,Ga) As shell quantum dots located in core-shell nanowires, in the presence of a magnetic field. The g-factors and the diamagnetic coefficients of both the X and the CX depend on ...

American Institute of Physics2014

Nanoskiving Core-Shell Nanowires: A New Fabrication Method for Nano-optics

Yannik Fontana, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin Heiss, Eleonora Russo

This paper describes the fabrication of functional optical devices by sectioning quantum-dot-in-nanowires systems with predefined lengths and orientations. This fabrication process requires only two steps, embedding the nanowires in epoxy and using an ultr ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Plastic and Elastic Strain Fields in GaAs/Si Core-Shell Nanowires

Christophe Ballif, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin Heiss, Sylvain Dunand, Sonia Conesa Boj, Eleonora Russo

Thanks to their unique morphology, nanowires have enabled integration of materials in a way that was not possible before with thin film technology. In turn, this opens new avenues for applications in the areas of energy harvesting, electronics, and optoele ...

American Chemical Society2014

Anisotropic magnetoresistance of individual CoFeB and Ni nanotubes with values of up to 1.4% at room temperature

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Eleonora Russo, Dirk Grundler, Federico Matteini, Reza Zamani

Magnetic nanotubes (NTs) are interesting for magnetic memory and magnonic applications. We report magnetotransport experiments on individual 10 to 20 mu m long Ni and CoFeB NTs with outer diameters ranging from 160 to 390 nm and film thicknesses of 20 to 4 ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Probing inhomogeneous composition in core/shell nanowires by Raman spectroscopy

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin Heiss, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Sonia Conesa Boj, Esther Alarcon Llado, Eleonora Russo, Federico Matteini, Francesca Amaduzzi

Due to its non-destructive and its micro-spatial resolution, Raman spectroscopy is a powerful tool for a rapid structural and compositional characterization of nanoscale materials. Here, by combining the compositional dependence of the Raman peaks with the ...

American Institute of Physics2014

Characterization and analysis of InAs/p-Si heterojunction nanowire-based solar cell

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna Dalmau Mallorquí, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Esther Alarcon Llado, Eleonora Russo, Federico Matteini

The growth of compound semiconductor nanowires on the silicon platform has opened many new perspectives in the area of electronics, optoelectronics and photovoltaics. We have grown a 1 x 1 mm(2) array of InAs nanowires on p-type silicon for the fabrication ...

Institute of Physics2014

Three-dimensional nanoscale study of Al segregation and quantum dot formation in GaAs/AlGaAs core-shell nanowires

Yannik Fontana, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin Heiss, Sonia Conesa Boj, Eleonora Russo, Luca Francaviglia

GaAs/Al-GaAs core-shell nanowires fabricated by molecular beam epitaxy contain quantum confining structures susceptible of producing narrow photoluminescence (PL) and single photons. The nanoscale chemical mapping of these structures is analyzed in 3D by a ...

American Institute of Physics2014

Quantum Dot Opto-Mechanics in a Fully Self-Assembled Nanowire

Yannik Fontana, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin Heiss, Eleonora Russo

We show that optically active quantum dots (QDs) embedded in MBE-grown GaAs/AlGaAs core-shell nanowires (NWs) are coupled to the NW mechanical motion. Oscillations of the NW modulate the QD emission energy in a broad range exceeding 14 meV. Furthermore, th ...

American Chemical Society2014

Exciton footprint of self-assembled AlGaAs quantum dots in core-shell nanowires

Samuel Sonderegger, Yannik Fontana, Pierre Michel Corfdir, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin Heiss, Eleonora Russo

Quantum-dot-in-nanowire systems constitute building blocks for advanced photonics and sensing applications. The electronic symmetry of the emitters impacts their function capabilities. Here we study the fine structure of gallium-rich quantum dots nested in ...

American Physical Society2014

Self-assembled quantum dots in a nanowire system for quantum photonics

Marco Cantoni, Yannik Fontana, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin Heiss, Bernt Ketterer, Sonia Conesa Boj, Eleonora Russo, Nicola Marzari

Quantum dots embedded within nanowires represent one of the most promising technologies for applications in quantum photonics. Whereas the top-down fabrication of such structures remains a technological challenge, their bottom-up fabrication through self-a ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Growth mechanisms and process window for InAs V-shaped nanoscale membranes on Si[001]

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin Heiss, Anna Dalmau Mallorquí, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Sonia Conesa Boj, Esther Alarcon Llado, Eleonora Russo, Ignasi Canales Mundet

Organized growth of high aspect-ratio nanostructures such as membranes is interesting for opto-electronic and energy harvesting applications. Recently, we reported a new form of InAs nano-membranes grown on Si substrates with enhanced light scattering prop ...

Institute of Physics2013

Reversal Mechanism of an Individual Ni Nanotube Simultaneously Studied by Torque and SQUID Magnetometry

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Eleonora Russo, Dirk Grundler

Using an optimally coupled nanometer-scale SQUID, we measure the magnetic flux originating from an individual ferromagnetic Ni nanotube attached to a Si cantilever. At the same time, we detect the nanotube's volume magnetization using torque magnetometry. ...

American Physical Society2013

Electrical transport in C-doped GaAs nanowires: surface effects

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin Heiss, Esther Alarcon Llado, Eleonora Russo, Alberto Casadei, Fauzia Jabeen, Jil Schwender, Mohammad Ramezani

The resistivity and mobility of carbon-doped GaAs nanowires have been studied for different doping concentrations. Surface effects have been evaluated by comparing unpassivated with passivated nanowires. We directly see the influence of the surface: the pi ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013