Realizing efficient on-chip light sources has long been the “holy-grail” for Si-photonics
research. Several important breakthroughs were made in this field in the past few years. In …

Silicon (Si) and/or germanium (Ge) nanomembranes (NMs) play crucial roles in various
applications, including conventional microelectronics, as well as recently emerging high …

Pressure sensors have been used as tactile sensing elements on prosthetic hands and in
humanoid robots,[1] employed during minimal access surgery [2, 3] and incorporated into …

Semiconductor membranes emerged as a versatile class of nanomaterials to control lattice
strain and engineer complex heterostructures enabling a variety of innovative applications …

The controlled application of strain in crystalline semiconductors can be used to modify their
basic physical properties to enhance performance in electronic and photonic device …

Lately, germanium based materials attract a lot of interest as they can overcome some limits
inherent to standard Silicon Photonics devices and can be used notably in Mid-Infra-Red …

In this work we study, using experiments and theoretical modeling, the mechanical and
optical properties of tensile strained Ge microstructures directly fabricated in a state-of-the …

Germanium plays an important role in biomedical utilizations, mainly for inducing
erythropoietic, antimicrobial, antiviral, antimutagenic, and immunomodulating effects. The …

Strain engineering has emerged as a powerful tool to control the properties of electronic and
photonic structures. Strain has a direct impact on the mechanical properties and on the …

The optical properties of germanium can be tailored by combining strain engineering and n-
type do**. In this paper, we review the recent progress that has been reported in the study …