Publications
Journal Article
- 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.
- K. J. Underwood, A. F. Briggs, S. D. Sifferman, V. B. Verma, N. S. Sirica, R. P. Prasankumar, S. Woo. Nam, K. L. Silverman, S. R. Bank, and J. T. Gopinath, "Strain dependence of Auger recombination in 3 \µm GaInAsSb/GaSb type-I active regions," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 116, pp. 262103, Jun 2020.
- D. Jung, D. J. Ironside, S. R. Bank, A. C. Gossard, and J. E. Bowers, "Effect of growth interruption in 1. 55 μm InAs/InAlGaAs quantum dots on InP grown by molecular beam epitaxy," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 123, no. 20, pp. 205302, Dec 2018.
- 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.
- 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.
- (Invited) S. D. Sifferman, H. P. Nair, R. Salas, N. T. Sheehan, S. J. Maddox, A. M. Crook, and S. R. Bank, "Highly strained mid-infrared type-I diode lasers on GaSb," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron., vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 248-257, Nov 2015.
- 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.
- A. Sciambi, M. Pelliccione, M. P. Lilly, S. R. Bank, A. C. Gossard, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, D. Goldhaber-Gordon, K. Deguchi, and Y. Mizuguchi, "Vertical Field-Effect Transistor Based on Wavefunction Extension," Phys. Rev. B, vol. 84, no. 8, pp. 085301, Aug 2011.
- A. Sciambi, M. Pelliccione, S. R. Bank, A. C. Gossard, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon, "Virtual scanning tunneling microscopy: A local spectroscopic probe of two-dimensional electron systems," APL, vol. 97, no. 13, pp. 132103, Sep 2010.
- G. J. Burek, M. A. Wistey, U. Singisetti, A. Nelson, B. J. Thibeault, S. R. Bank, M. J. Rodwell, and A. C. Gossard, "Height-selective etching for regrowth of self-aligned contacts using MBE," J. Cryst. Growth, vol. 311, no. 7, pp. 1984-1987, Mar 2009.
- U. Singisetti, J. D. Zimmerman, M. A. Wistey, J. Cagnon, B. J. Thibeault, M. J. Rodwell, A. C. Gossard, S. Stemmer, and S. R. Bank, "ErAs epitaxial Ohmic contacts to InGaAs/InP," APL, vol. 94, no. 8, pp. 083505-083505, Feb 2009.
- U. Singisetti, M. A. Wistey, J. D. Zimmerman, B. J. Thibeault, M. J. Rodwell, A. C. Gossard, and S. R. Bank, "Ultralow resistance in situ Ohmic contacts to InGaAs/InP," APL, vol. 93, no. 18, pp. 183502, Nov 2008.
- A. M. Crook, E. Lind, Z. Griffith, M. J. Rodwell, J. D. Zimmerman, A. C. Gossard, and S. R. Bank, "Low resistance, nonalloyed Ohmic contacts to InGaAs," APL, vol. 91, no. 19, pp. 192114, Nov 2007.
- 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.
- H. Tong. Chen, W. J. Padilla, J. M. O. Zide, S. R. Bank, A. C. Gossard, A. J. Taylor, and R. D. Averitt, "Ultrafast optical switching of terahertz metamaterials fabricated on ErAs/GaAs nanoisland superlattices," Opt. Lett., vol. 32, no. 12, pp. 1620-1622, Jun 2007.
- M. P. Hanson, S. R. Bank, J. M. O. Zide, J. D. Zimmerman, and A. C. Gossard, "Controlling electronic properties of epitaxial nanocomposites of dissimilar materials," J. Cryst. Growth, vol. 301-302, pp. 4-9, Apr 2007.
- W. Yi, V. Narayanamurti, J. M. O. Zide, S. R. Bank, and A. C. Gossard, "Probing energy barriers and quantum confined states of buried semiconductor heterostructures with ballistic carrier injection: An experimental study," Phys. Rev. B, vol. 75, no. 11, pp. 115333, Mar 2007.
Conference Paper
- S. D. Sifferman, A. F. Briggs, S. J. Maddox, H. P. Nair, and S. R. Bank, "Highly strained, high indium content III-V materials toward 4-micron type-I emitters," Optical Materials Express, 62nd Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Columbus, OH, Jun 2020.
- A. F. Briggs, K. J. Underwood, S. D. Sifferman, J. T. Gopinath, and S. R. Bank, "Comparison of Auger Recombination Across Material Systems with Externally Applied Biaxial Strain," 62nd Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Columbus, OH, Jun 2020.
- K. J. Underwood, A. F. Briggs, S. D. Sifferman, V. B. Verma, N. S. Sirica, R. P. Prasankumar, S. Woo. Nam, K. L. Silverman, S. R. Bank, and J. T. Gopinath, "Auger Recombination in Strained Mid-Infrared Quantum Wells," Conf. on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO), Washington, DC, May 2020.
- A. F. Briggs, S. D. Sifferman, K. J. Underwood, J. T. Gopinath, and S. R. Bank, "Externally Applied Strain on GaSb Based InGaAsSb Quantum Well Membranes," 61st Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Ann Arbor, MI, Jun 2019.
- 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.
- 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.
- A. K. Rockwell, Y. Yuan, S. D. March, A. H. Jones, M. E. Woodson, M. Ren, S. D. Sifferman, S. J. Maddox, J. C. Campbell, and S. R. Bank, "III-V Digital Alloys for Mid-IR Photodetectors," 60th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Santa Barbara, CA, Jun 2018.
- K. J. Underwood, A. F. Briggs, S. D. Sifferman, S. R. Bank, and J. T. Gopinath, "Auger Recombination in Mid-Infrared Active Regions," Conf. on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- (Invited) S. R. Bank, S. D. Sifferman, H. P. Nair, N. T. Sheehan, R. Salas, S. J. Maddox, and A. M. Crook, "Highly strained type-I diode lasers on GaSb," SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, CA, Feb 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.
- S. D. Sifferman, R. Salas, S. J. Maddox, H. P. Nair, N. T. Sheehan, E. M. Krivoy, E. S. Walker, and S. R. Bank, "Surfactant-mediated growth of highly strained materials for mid-infrared applications," 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.
- S. D. Sifferman, J. W. Schwede, D. C. Riley, R. T. Howe, Z. Shen, N. A. Melosh, and S. R. Bank, "Compositionally-Graded Structures for Photon-Enhanced Thermionic Emitters," 56th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Santa Barbara, CA, Jun 2014.
- A. M. Crook, H. P. Nair, K. Vijayraghavan, M. A. Wistey, J. D. Zimmerman, J. M. O. Zide, A. C. Gossard, and S. R. Bank, "Annealing Stability of Nanoparticle-Enhanced Tunnel Junctions for High-Efficiency Solar Cells and Mid-Infrared Lasers," 51st Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), University Park, PA, Jun 2009.
- M. Pelliccione, A. Sciambi, D. Goldhaber-Gordon, S. R. Bank, A. C. Gossard, J. L. Reno, and M. P. Lilly, "Tunneling spectroscopy of a 2D-2D tunnel junction: Towards a local spectroscopic probe of 2D electron systems," American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, Mar 2009.
- A. Sciambi, M. Pelliccione, D. Goldhaber-Gordon, S. R. Bank, A. C. Gossard, M. P. Lilly, and J. L. Reno, "The Virtual Scanning Tunneling Microscope: Induced Tunneling in Bilayer Two-Dimensional Electron Systems," American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, Mar 2009.
- M. A. Wistey, G. J. Burek, U. Singisetti, A. M. Crook, B. J. Thibeault, S. R. Bank, M. J. Rodwell, and A. C. Gossard, "Regrowth of Self-Aligned, Ultra Low Resistance Ohmic Contacts on InGaAs," International Conf. on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE), Vancouver, BC, Canada, Aug 2008.
- M. A. Wistey, U. Singisetti, G. J. Burek, B. J. Thibeault, J. Cagnon, S. Stemmer, S. R. Bank, Y. Sun, E. J. Kiewra, D. K. Sadana, A. C. Gossard, and M. J. Rodwell, "Self-aligned III-V MOSFETs for sub-22nm Nodes," SRC Techcon, Austin, TX, Aug 2008.
- H. P. Nair, A. M. Crook, J. M. O. Zide, M. P. Hanson, A. C. Gossard, and S. R. Bank, "Nanoparticle-enhanced tunnel junctions for high efficiency mid-infrared lasers," 50th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Santa Barbara, CA, Jun 2008.
- A. Sciambi, D. Goldhaber-Gordon, S. R. Bank, and A. C. Gossard, "The Virtual Scanning Tunneling Microscope: A Novel Probe Technique for Imaging Two-Dimensional Electron Systems," American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, Mar 2008.
- M. J. Rodwell, E. Lind, Z. Griffith, A. M. Crook, S. R. Bank, U. Singisetti, M. A. Wistey, G. J. Burek, and A. C. Gossard, "On the Feasibility of few-THz Bipolar Transistors," Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, 2007. BCTM 07. IEEE, pp. 17-21, Sep 2007.
- U. Singisetti, A. M. Crook, E. Lind, M. A. Wistey, J. D. Zimmerman, A. C. Gossard, M. J. Rodwell, and S. R. Bank, "Ultra-Low Resistance Ohmic Contacts to InGaAs/InP," 65th Device Research Conf. (DRC), South Bend, IN, Jun 2007.
- (Plenary) M. J. Rodwell, E. Lind, Z. Griffith, S. R. Bank, A. M. Crook, U. Singisetti, M. A. Wistey, G. J. Burek, and A. C. Gossard, "Frequency limits of InP-based integrated circuits," 19th International Conf. on Indium-Phosphide and Related Materials (IPRM), Matsue, Japan, pp. 9-13, May 2007.
- A. C. Gossard, M. P. Hanson, J. M. O. Zide, J. D. Zimmerman, S. R. Bank, E. Brown, and M. J. Rodwell, "Metal/semiconductor Heterostructures for Terahertz Applications," Materials Research Symposium (MRS), San Francisco, CA, Apr 2007.