Publications by Martin George Friedl

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

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

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

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

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

Towards defect-free thin films of the earth-abundant absorber zinc phosphide by nanopatterning

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Reza Zamani, Martin George Friedl, Mahdi Zamani, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Rajrupa Paul, Valerio Piazza

Large-scale deployment of thin-film photovoltaics will be facilitatedthrough earth-abundant components. Herein, selective area epitaxyand lateral overgrowth epitaxy are explored for the growth of zincphosphide (Zn3P2), a promising earth-abundant absorber. ...

2021

GaAs nanoscale membranes: prospects for seamless integration of III-Vs on silicon

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Martin George Friedl, Luca Francaviglia, Nicholas Paul Morgan, Andres Maria Raya Bejarano, Sara Marti Sanchez, Vladimir Dubrovskii

The growth of compound semiconductors on silicon has been widely sought after for decades, but reliable methods for defect-free combination of these materials have remained elusive. Recently, interconnected GaAs nanoscale membranes have been used as templa ...

2020

Dataset for "Towards defect-free thin films of the earth-abundant absorber zinc phosphide by nanopatterning"

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Reza Zamani, Martin George Friedl, Mahdi Zamani, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Rajrupa Paul, Valerio Piazza

Raw data associated with the publication "Towards defect-free thin films of the earth-abundant absorber zinc phosphide by nanopatterning", first published in Nanoscale Advances on the 23nd November 2020. ...

Zenodo2020

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

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

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

Remote Doping of Scalable Nanowire Branches

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

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

Raw dataset and image files used for the publication ...

2020

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

Fundamental aspects to localize self-catalyzed III-V nanowires on silicon

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Jelena Vukajlovic Plestina, Martin George Friedl, Heidi Andrea Potts, William Craig Carter, Lea Ghisalberti, Wonjong Kim, Vladimir Dubrovskii

III-V semiconductor nanowires deterministically placed on top of silicon electronic platform would open many avenues in silicon-based photonics, quantum technologies and energy harvesting. For this to become a reality, gold-free site-selected growth is nec ...

Nature Research2019

Nanosails Showcasing Zn 3 As 2 as an Optoelectronic‐Grade Earth Abundant Semiconductor

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Martin George Friedl

2019

Questioning liquid droplet stability on nanowire tips: from theory to experiment

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Lucas Güniat, Martin George Friedl, Heidi Andrea Potts, William Craig Carter, Mahdi Zamani, Lea Ghisalberti

2019

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

III–V Integration on Si(100): Vertical Nanospades

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Lucas Güniat, Nicolas Tappy, Martin George Friedl, David Vindice, Luca Francaviglia, Megane Boscardin, Mahdi Zamani, Wonjong Kim, Sara Marti Sanchez, Akshay Balgarkashi, Oscar Garcia Garcia

2019

Dataset for "Nanosails Showcasing Zn 3 As 2 as an Optoelectronic‐Grade Earth Abundant Semiconductor"

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Martin George Friedl

Zn3As2 is a promising earth‐abundant semiconductor material. Its bandgap, around 1 eV, can be tuned across the infrared by alloying and makes this material suited for applications in optoelectronics. Here, we report the crystalline structure and electrical ...

2019

Growth of nanowire arrays from micron-feature templates

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gaëtan Bernard, Martin George Friedl, William Craig Carter, Dmitry Mikulik, Lea Ghisalberti, Wonjong Kim, Pablo Romero Gómez, Christian André Jürgensen

Here, we present a two-step annealing procedure to imprint nanofeatures on SiO2 starting from metallic microfeatures. The first annealing transforms the microfeatures into gold nanoparticles and the second imprints these nanoparticles into the SiO2 layer w ...

2019

Template-Assisted Scalable Nanowire Networks

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Lucas Güniat, Martin George Friedl, Heidi Andrea Potts, Mahdi Zamani, Wonjong Kim, Sara Marti Sanchez, Vladimir Dubrovskii

Topological qubits based on Majorana Fermions have the potential to revolutionize the emerging field of quantum computing by making information processing significantly more robust to decoherence. Nanowires are a promising medium for hosting these kinds of ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2018

Bi-stability of contact angle and its role in tuning the morphology of self-assisted GaAs nanowires

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Lucas Güniat, Jelena Vukajlovic Plestina, Martin George Friedl, Heidi Andrea Potts, Luca Francaviglia, Wonjong Kim, Vladimir Dubrovskii

We demonstrate the existence of two stable contact angles for the gallium droplet on top of self-assisted GaAs nanowires grown by MBE on patterned silicon substrates. Contact angle around 130 degrees fosters a continuous increase in the nanowire radius, wh ...

IEEE2018

Dataset for "Template-assisted scalable nanowire networks"

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Martin George Friedl, Heidi Andrea Potts, Mahdi Zamani, Wonjong Kim

Topological qubits based on Majorana Fermions have the potential to revolutionize the emerging field of quantum computing by making information processing significantly more robust to decoherence. Nanowires are a promising medium for hosting these kinds of ...

Zenodo2018

Bistability of Contact Angle and Its Role in Achieving Quantum-Thin Self-Assisted GaAs nanowires

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Lucas Güniat, Jelena Vukajlovic Plestina, Martin George Friedl, Heidi Andrea Potts, Luca Francaviglia, Wonjong Kim, Vladimir Dubrovskii

American Chemical Society (ACS)2018