Metastable group IV allotropes and solid solutions: Nanoparticles and nanowires

S Barth, MS Seifner, S Maldonado - Chemistry of Materials, 2020 - ACS Publications
In the past decades, group IV nanowires and nanoparticles have been the subject of
extensive research. Beside tremendous progress in morphological control and integration in …

Linear and nonlinear intersubband optical properties of direct band gap GeSn quantum dots

M Baira, B Salem, NA Madhar, B Ilahi - Nanomaterials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Intersubband optical transitions, refractive index changes, and absorption coefficients are
numerically driven for direct bandgap strained GeSn/Ge quantum dots. The linear, third …

Sputter deposited GeSn alloy: A candidate material for temperature sensing layers in uncooled microbolometers

M Abdel-Rahman, M Alduraibi, M Hezam… - Infrared Physics & …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, we study the resistance versus temperature characteristics of Ge 1-x Sn x thin
film alloys to assess the possibility of using them for temperature sensing layers in …

Theoretical Analysis of GeSn Quantum Dots for Photodetection Applications

PH Lin, S Ghosh, GE Chang - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
GeSn alloys have recently emerged as complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor
(CMOS)-compatible materials for optoelectronic applications. Although various photonic …

Design of strain-engineered GeSn/GeSiSn quantum dots for mid-IR direct bandgap emission on Si substrate

R Al-Saigh, M Baira, B Salem, B Ilahi - Nanoscale Research Letters, 2018 - Springer
Strain-engineered self-assembled GeSn/GeSiSn quantum dots in Ge matrix have been
numerically investigated aiming to study their potentiality towards direct bandgap emission …

Intersubband optical nonlinearity of GeSn quantum dots under vertical electric field

M Baira, B Salem, N Ahamad Madhar, B Ilahi - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
The impact of vertical electrical field on the electron related linear and 3rd order nonlinear
optical properties are evaluated numerically for pyramidal GeSn quantum dots with different …

[HTML][HTML] Investigation of GeSn/Ge quantum dots' optical transitions for integrated optics on Si substrate

M Baira, M Aljaghwani, B Salem, NA Madhar, B Ilahi - Results in Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
The effects of self-organized GeSn/Ge quantum dot's size and shape on the direct band gap
interband emission energy, oscillator strength and radiative lifetime are evaluated. The …

Low-temperature formation of GeSn nanodots by Sn mediation

H Okamoto, K Takita, K Tsushima… - Japanese Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
GeSn is expected as a light-emitting material in Si photonics because a direct-bandgap
nature appears with Sn composition above 10%. However, the emission wavelength of …

Growth of SiGe, GeSn and Si: C alloys grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy at Ultra-Low Temperatures/Author Enrique Prado Navarrete

E Prado Navarrete - 2023 - epub.jku.at
Over the recent decades, heteroepitaxial layers comprising crystalline stacks of Group-IV
alloys, predominantly SiGe, have been employed to enhance the operational efficiency of …

The Theoretical Optical Gain of Ge1−xSnx Nanowires

W Xiong, WJ Fan, ZG Song… - physica status solidi (RRL) …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The electronic structures of Ge1− xSnx nanowires at the direct Γ‐valley and indirect L‐valley
is calculated using k· p effective‐mass theory, and the results demonstrate that Ge1− xSnx …