Publications
Journal Article
- R. H. El-Jaroudi, K. M. McNicholas, H. S. Maczko, R. Kudrawiec, and S. R. Bank, "Growth advancement of GaAs-based BGaInAs alloys emitting at 1. 3 um by molecular beam epitaxy," Journal of Crystal Growth and Design, May 2022.
- J. Kopaczek, F. Dybala, S. J. Zelewski, N. Sokolowski, W. Zuraw, K. M. McNicholas, R. H. El-Jaroudi, R. C. White, S. R. Bank, and R. Kudrawiec, "Photoreflectance studies of temperature and hydrostatic pressure dependencies of direct optical transitions in BGaAs alloys grown on GaP," Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 015107, Oct 2021.
- K. M. McNicholas, R. H. El-Jaroudi, and S. R. Bank, "Kinetically Limited Molecular Beam Epitaxy of BxGa1–xAs Alloys," Journal of Crystal Growth \& Design, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 6076-6082, Sep 2021.
- A. F. Briggs, L. J. Nordin, A. J. Muhowski, E. Simmons, P. Dhingra, M. L. Lee, V. A. Podolskiy, D. Wasserman, and S. R. Bank, "Enhanced room temperature infrared LEDs using monolithically integrated plasmonic materials," Optica, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 1355-1358, Oct 2020.
- R. H. El-Jaroudi, K. M. McNicholas, A. F. Briggs, S. D. Sifferman, L. J. Nordin, and S. R. Bank, "Room-temperature photoluminescence and electroluminescence of 1. 3-\µm-range BGaInAs quantum wells on GaAs substrates," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 117, pp. 021102, Jul 2020.
- R. Kudrawiec, M. Polak, K. M. McNicholas, J. Kopaczek, M. A. Wistey, and S. R. Bank, "Bowing of the band gap and spin-orbit splitting energy in BGaAs," Materials Research Express, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 125913, Jan 2020.
- E. S. Walker, S. E. Muschinske, C. J. Brennan, S. Ryul. Na, T. Trivedi, S. D. March, Y. Sun, T. Yang, A. Yau, D. Jung, A. F. Briggs, E. M. Krivoy, M. L. Lee, K. M. Liechti, E. T. Yu, D. Akinwande, and S. R. Bank, "Composition-dependent structural transition in epitaxial Bi1-xSbx thin films on Si(111)," Physical Review Materials, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 064201, Jun 2019.
- D. J. Ironside, A. M. Skipper, T. A. Leonard, M. Radulaski, T. Sarmiento, P. Dhingra, M. L. Lee, J. Vuckovic, and S. R. Bank, "High-quality GaAs planar coalescence over embedded dielectric microstructures using an all-MBE approach," Crystal Growth and Design, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 3085-3091, Apr 2019.
- E. M. Krivoy, A. P. Vasudev, S. Rahimi, R. A. Synowicki, K. M. McNicholas, D. J. Ironside, R. Salas, G. Kelp, D. Jung, H. P. Nair, G. Shvets, D. Akinwande, M. L. Lee, M. L. Brongersma, and S. R. Bank, "Rare-earth monopnictide alloys for tunable, epitaxial, designer plasmonics," ACS Photonics, vol. 5, pp. 3051-3056, Jul 2018.
- A. K. Rockwell, M. Ren, M. E. Woodson, A. H. Jones, S. D. March, Y. Tan, Y. Yuan, Y. Sun, R. Hool, S. J. Maddox, M. L. Lee, A. W. Ghosh, J. C. Campbell, and S. R. Bank, "Toward Deterministic Construction of Low Noise Avalanche Photodetector Materials," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 113, no. 10, pp. 102106, Dec 2018.
- D. Jung, S. R. Bank, M. L. Lee, and D. Wasserman, "Next generation mid-infrared sources," J. Opt, vol. 19, no. 12, pp. 123001, Nov 2017.
- R. Salas, S. Guchhait, S. D. Sifferman, K. M. McNicholas, V. D. Dasika, D. Jung, E. M. Krivoy, M. L. Lee, and S. R. Bank, "Growth rate and surfactant-assisted enhancements of rare-earth arsenide InGaAs nanocomposites for terahertz generation," APL Materials, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 096106, Sep 2017.
- D. Jung, J. Faucher, S. Mukherjee, A. Akey, D. J. Ironside, M. Cabral, X. Sang, J. Lebeau, S. R. Bank, T. Buonassisi, O. Moutanabbir, and M. L. Lee, "Highly tensile-strained Ge/InAlAs nanocomposites," Nature Communications, vol. 8, pp. 14204, Jan 2017.
- E. S. Walker, S. Ryul. Na, D. Jung, S. D. March, J. Kim, T. Trivedi, W. Li, L. Tao, M. L. Lee, K. M. Liechti, D. Akinwande, and S. R. Bank, "Large-Area Dry Transfer of Single-Crystalline Epitaxial Bismuth Thin Films," Nano Letters, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 6931-6938, Oct 2016.
- Z. Wu, G. Kelp, M. N. Yogeesh, W. Li, K. M. McNicholas, A. F. Briggs, B. B.Rajeeva, D. Akinwande, S. R. Bank, G. Shvets, and Y. Zheng, "Dual-Band Moire Metasurface Patches for Multifunctional Biomedical Applications," Nanoscale, vol. 8, pp. 18461, Sep 2016.
- Z. Wu, W. Li, M. N. Yogeesh, S. Jung, A. Lynghi. Lee, K. M. McNicholas, A. F. Briggs, S. R. Bank, M. A. Belkin, D. Akinwande, and Y. Zheng, "Tunable Graphene Metasurfaces with Gradient Features by Self-Assembly-Based Moire Nanosphere Lithography," Advanced Optical Materials, Aug 2016.
- R. Salas, S. Guchhait, K. M. McNicholas, S. D. Sifferman, V. D. Dasika, D. Jung, E. M. Krivoy, M. L. Lee, and S. R. Bank, "Surfactant-assisted growth and properties of rare-earth arsenide InGaAs nanocomposites for terahertz generation," APL, vol. 108, no. 18, pp. 182102, May 2016.
- C. S. Schulze, X. Huang, C. Prohl, V. Fullert, S. Rybank, S. J. Maddox, S. D. March, S. R. Bank, M. L. Lee, and A. Lenz, "Atomic structure and stoichiometry of In(Ga)As/GaAs quantum dots grown on an exact-oriented GaP/Si(001) substrate," APL, vol. 108, no. 14, pp. 143101, Apr 2016.
- W. Zhu, S. Park, M. N. Yogeesh, K. M. McNicholas, S. R. Bank, and D. Akinwande, "Black phosphorus flexible thin film transistors at gigahertz frequencies," Nano Letters, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 2301-2306, Mar 2016.
- R. Salas, S. Guchhait, S. D. Sifferman, K. M. McNicholas, V. D. Dasika, E. M. Krivoy, D. Jung, M. L. Lee, and S. R. Bank, "Growth and properties of rare-earth arsenide InGaAs nanocomposites for terahertz generation," APL, vol. 106, no. 8, pp. 081103, Feb 2015.
- V. D. Dasika, E. M. Krivoy, H. P. Nair, S. J. Maddox, K. W. Park, D. Jung, M. L. Lee, E. T. Yu, and S. R. Bank, "Increased InAs Quantum Dot Size and Density using Bismuth as a Surfactant," APL, vol. 105, no. 25, pp. 253104, Dec 2014.
- R. D. Averitt, W. J. Padilla, H. Tong. Chen, J. F. O Hara, A. J. Taylor, C. Highstrete, M. L. Lee, J. M. O. Zide, S. R. Bank, A. C. Gossard, M. Anwar, A. J. DeMaria, and M. S. Shur, "Terahertz metamaterial devices," Proc. SPIE, vol. 6772, pp. 677209, Sep 2007.
Conference Paper
- A. M. García, B. D. Aguilar, W. J. Doyle, Y. Wang, D. J. Ironside, A. M. Skipper, M. K. Bergthold, M. L. Lee, D. Wasserman, and S. R. Bank, "Molecular Beam Epitaxy Selective Area Regrowth of High Aspect Ratio Microstructures for Mid-Infrared Optoelectronics," 66th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), College Park, Maryland, Jun 2024.
- S. R. Bank, A. F. Briggs, L. J. Nordin, A. J. Muhowski, E. Simmons, P. Dhingra, M. L. Lee, V. A. Podolskiy, and D. Wasserman, "Enhancing mid-IR LED performance with monolithically-integrated epitaxial plasmonics," IEEE Summer Topicals Conference (SUM), Virtual, Jul 2021.
- A. F. Briggs, L. J. Nordin, A. J. Muhowski, E. Simmons, P. Dhingra, M. L. Lee, V. A. Podolskiy, D. Wasserman, and S. R. Bank, "Enhanced double heterostructure infrared LEDs using monolithically integrated plasmonic materials," 63nd Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Virtual, Jun 2021.
- R. H. El-Jaroudi, K. M. McNicholas, P. Dhingra, R. C. White, Q. Meng, M. A. Wistey, M. L. Lee, and S. R. Bank, "B-III-V/GaAs quantum wells: towards 1. 55 \µm emitters on GaAs," 62nd Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Columbus, OH, Jun 2020.
- R. C. White, R. H. El-Jaroudi, Q. Meng, P. Dhingra, M. L. Lee, S. R. Bank, and M. A. Wistey, "Mechanism for Blueshift with Annealing in Near-Infrared B-III-V Alloys on GaAs," 62nd Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Columbus, OH, Jun 2020.
- Q. Meng, R. H. El-Jaroudi, I. A. Gulyas, R. C. White, K. M. McNicholas, T. Dey, S. R. Bank, and M. A. Wistey, "Effect of B-In interactions on the band structure and optical properties of BGa(In)As," 62nd Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Columbus, OH, Jun 2020.
- K. M. McNicholas, R. H. El-Jaroudi, J. Kopaczek, A. H. Jones, D. J. Ironside, R. Judrawiec, J. C. Campbell, and S. R. Bank, "Progress towards B-III-V optoelectronic devices on silicon," 61st Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Ann Arbor, MI, Jun 2019.
- R. H. El-Jaroudi, K. M. McNicholas, B. A. Bouslog, J. Kopaczek, R. Kudrawiec, and S. R. Bank, "BGaInAs/GaAs quantum wells for 1. 3µm lasers," 61st Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Ann Arbor, MI, Jun 2019.
- A. M. Skipper, D. J. Ironside, Y. Fang, J. van. de Groep, J. Song, P. Dhingra, M. L. Lee, M. L. Brongersma, M. J. Rodwell, and S. R. Bank, "Epitaxial Integration of Arbitrarily Patterned Metal Nanostructures for Photonic Applications," 61st Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Ann Arbor, MI, Jun 2019.
- R. H. El-Jaroudi, K. M. McNicholas, B. A. Bouslog, I. E. Olivares, R. C. White, J. A. McArthur, and S. R. Bank, "Boron Alloys for GaAs-based 1. 3μm Semiconductor Lasers," Conf. on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 2019.
- S. R. Bank, K. M. McNicholas, R. H. El-Jaroudi, A. K. Rockwell, T. Golding, R. Droopad, J. Shao, W. K. Jamison, G. Wicks, and G. Savich, "Improved MWIR LED arrays on Si Substrates for Scene Projectors," IEEE RAPID, Miramar Beach, FL, Aug 2018.
- S. E. Muschinske, E. S. Walker, C. J. Brennan, Y. Sun, A. Yau, T. Trivedi, A. Roy, S. D. March, A. F. Briggs, E. M. Krivoy, D. Akinwande, M. L. Lee, E. T. Yu, and S. R. Bank, "Epitaxial Growth and Characterization of 2-D BixSb1-x Alloys on Si(111)," 60th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Santa Barbara, CA, Jun 2018.
- K. M. McNicholas, D. J. Ironside, R. H. El-Jaroudi, H. S. Maczko, G. Cossio, L. J. Nordin, S. D. Sifferman, R. Kudrawiec, E. T. Yu, D. Wasserman, and S. R. Bank, "BGaAs/GaP heteroepitaxy for strain-free luminescent layers on Si," 60th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Santa Barbara, CA, Jun 2018.
- R. H. El-Jaroudi, N. T. Sheehan, K. M. McNicholas, D. J. Ironside, A. F. Briggs, A. M. Skipper, S. D. Sifferman, and S. R. Bank, "Strain Engineering of Nanomembranes with Amorphous Silicon," 60th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Santa Barbara, CA, Jun 2018.
- D. J. Ironside, P. Dhingra, A. M. Skipper, M. L. Lee, and S. R. Bank, "Defect Reduction in All-MBE-grown InAs/GaAs Heteroepitaxy using Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth," 60th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Santa Barbara, CA, Jun 2018.
- S. D. Sifferman, M. Motyka, A. F. Briggs, K. J. Underwood, K. M. McNicholas, R. Kudrawiec, J. T. Gopinath, and S. R. Bank, "Dilute-Bismide Alloys for GaSb-based Mid-Infrared Semiconductor Lasers," Conf. on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 2018.
- E. S. Walker, S. Ryul. Na, Y. Sun, C. J. Brennan, F. He, R. H. Roberts, N. Yoon, S. E. Muschinske, S. D. March, A. F. Briggs, D. Wasserman, D. Akinwande, Y. Wang, E. T. Yu, M. L. Lee, K. M. Liechti, and S. R. Bank, "Epitaxial Growth and Transfer of Bismuth and Bismuth Antimonide Thin Films," SRC TECHCON, Austin, TX, Sep 2017.
- K. M. McNicholas, R. Salas, S. D. Sifferman, D. Jung, M. L. Lee, and S. R. Bank, "Growth rate dependent surface morphology of rare earth arsenide films," 59th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), South Bend, IN, Jun 2017.
- K. M. McNicholas, R. H. El-Jaroudi, A. F. Briggs, S. D. March, S. D. Sifferman, and S. R. Bank, "Growth and properties of B-III-V alloys," 59th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), South Bend, IN, Jun 2017.
- A. K. Rockwell, M. E. Woodson, M. Ren, K. M. McNicholas, S. D. Sifferman, S. J. Maddox, J. C. Campbell, and S. R. Bank, "Surfactant-Mediated Epitaxy of III-V Digital Alloys," 59th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), South Bend, IN, Jun 2017.
- S. D. Sifferman, A. K. Rockwell, K. M. McNicholas, Y. Sun, R. Salas, S. J. Maddox, H. P. Nair, M. L. Lee, and S. R. Bank, "The effects of a bismuth flux on strained-layer III-V optical materials," 59th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), South Bend, IN, Jun 2017.
- A. K. Rockwell, S. J. Maddox, Y. Sun, D. Jung, S. D. Sifferman, S. D. March, M. L. Lee, and S. R. Bank, "Growth and Properties of Broadly-Tunable AlInAsSb Digital Alloys on GaSb," 32nd North American Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (NAMBE), Saratoga Springs, NY, Sep 2016.
- E. S. Walker, S. Ryul. Na, D. Jung, S. D. March, Y. Liu, T. Trivedi, W. Li, L. Tao, M. L. Lee, K. M. Liechti, D. Akinwande, and S. R. Bank, "Growth and Transfer of Epitaxial Bismuth Films for Flexible Electronics," 58th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Newark, DE, Jun 2016.
- A. K. Rockwell, S. J. Maddox, D. Jung, Y. Sun, S. D. Sifferman, W. Sun, M. Ren, J. Guo, J. C. Campbell, M. L. Lee, and S. R. Bank, "The Effect of Period Thickness on AlInAsSb Digital Alloys on GaSb," 58th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Newark, DE, Jun 2016.
- R. Salas, N. T. Sheehan, S. Guchhait, K. M. McNicholas, S. D. Sifferman, V. D. Dasika, E. M. Krivoy, and S. R. Bank, "Properties of Growth Enhanced ErAs:InGaAs Nanocomposites," 57th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Columbus, OH, Jun 2015.
- K. M. McNicholas, E. M. Krivoy, R. Salas, S. D. Sifferman, and S. R. Bank, "Tunable, lattice-matched, epitaxial semimetals," 57th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Columbus, OH, Jun 2015.
- R. Salas, S. Guchhait, S. D. Sifferman, K. M. McNicholas, V. D. Dasika, D. Jung, M. L. Lee, and S. R. Bank, "Surfactant-Mediated Growth of RE-As:InGaAs Nanocomposites," International Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conf. (IMBE), Flagstaff, AZ, Sep 2014.
- R. Salas, S. Guchhait, S. D. Sifferman, K. M. McNicholas, V. D. Dasika, D. J. Ironside, E. M. Krivoy, S. J. Maddox, D. Jung, M. L. Lee, and S. R. Bank, "Properties of RE-As:InGaAs Nanocomposites," 56th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Santa Barbara, CA, Jun 2014.