Progress on germanium–tin nanoscale alloys

J Doherty, S Biswas, E Galluccio… - Chemistry of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Group IV alloys have attracted interest in the drive to create Si compatible, direct band gap
materials for implementation in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) and …

One-Step fabrication of GeSn branched nanowires

J Doherty, S Biswas, D McNulty, C Downing… - Chemistry of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We report for the first time the self-catalyzed, single-step growth of branched GeSn
nanostructures by a vapor–liquid–solid mechanism. These typical GeSn nanostructures …

Ge0. 83Sn0. 17 p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors: Impact of sulfur passivation on gate stack quality

D Lei, W Wang, Z Zhang, J Pan, X Gong… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Ge0.83Sn0.17 p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors: Impact of sulfur
passivation on gate stack quality | Journal of Applied Physics | AIP Publishing Skip to Main …

Influence of growth kinetics on Sn incorporation in direct band gap Ge 1− x Sn x nanowires

J Doherty, S Biswas, D Saladukha… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Ge1− xSnx alloys with substantial incorporation of Sn show promise as direct bandgap
group IV semiconductors. This article reports the influence of growth kinetics on Sn inclusion …

The band structure and optical gain of a new IV-group alloy GePb: a first-principles calculation

W Huang, B Cheng, C Xue, H Yang - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2017 - Elsevier
A new Si-based material GePb which has been predicted to possess a direct-bandgap
attracts much attention in the field of fabricating Si-based light source recently. To precisely …

[HTML][HTML] Infrared dielectric response, index of refraction, and absorption of germanium-tin alloys with tin contents up to 27% deposited by molecular beam epitaxy

D Imbrenda, R Hickey, RA Carrasco… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The dielectric spectral response of Ge 1-x Sn x thin film alloys with relatively high Sn
contents (0.15≤ x≤ 0.27) and thickness from 42 to 132 nm was characterized by variable …

[HTML][HTML] Band structure critical point energy in germanium–tin alloys with high tin contents

D Imbrenda, RA Carrasco, R Hickey… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The dielectric functions of germanium–tin alloy thin-films, deposited by molecular beam
epitaxy on bulk Ge substrates, with relatively high Sn contents from 15 to 27 at.%, were …

Impact of defects on photoexcited carrier relaxation dynamics in GeSn thin films

SV Kondratenko, SS Derenko, YI Mazur… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of a study that was conducted to investigate the recombination paths of
photoexcited charge carriers in GeSn thin films. The charge carrier lifetime was predicted as …

[HTML][HTML] Band gap and strain engineering of pseudomorphic Ge1− x− ySixSny alloys on Ge and GaAs for photonic applications

NS Fernando, RA Carrasco, R Hickey, J Hart… - Journal of Vacuum …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The authors report the compositional dependence of the direct and indirect band gaps of
pseudomorphic Ge 1− x− y Si x Sn y alloys on Ge and GaAs with (001) surface orientation …

Design of Ge1-xSnx-on-Si waveguide photodetectors featuring high-speed high-sensitivity photodetection in the C- to U-bands

XY Li, JY Wang, YF Liu, JJ Chen, Y Du, W Wang… - Applied Optics, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We present the design of Ge_1− xSn_x-on-Si waveguide photodetectors for the applications
in the C-to U-bands. The GeSn photodetectors have been studied in respect to responsivity …