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.
- A. M. Skipper, P. Petluru, D. J. Ironside, A. M. García, A. J. Muhowski, D. Wasserman, and S. R. Bank, "All-epitaxial, laterally structured plasmonic materials," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 120, no. 16, pp. 161103, Dec 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.
- D. J. Ironside, A. M. Skipper, A. M. García, and S. R. Bank, "Review of lateral epitaxial overgrowth of buried dielectric structures for electronics and photonics," Progress in Quantum Electronics, pp. 100316, Dec 2021.
- J. Zheng, S. Z. Ahmed, Y. Yuan, A. H. Jones, Y. Tan, A. K. Rockwell, S. D. March, S. R. Bank, A. W. Ghosh, and J. C. Campbell, "Full band Monte Carlo simulation of AlInAsSb digital alloys," InfoMat, vol. 2, no. 06, pp. 1236-1240, Nov 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.
- J. Zheng, S. Z. Ahmed, Y. Yuan, A. H. Jones, Y. Tan, A. K. Rockwell, S. D. March, S. R. Bank, A. W. Ghosh, and J. C. Campbell, "Full band Monte Carlo simulation of AlInAsSb digital alloys," InfoMat, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 1236-1240, Mar 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.
- A. H. Jones, A. K. Rockwell, S. D. March, Y. Yuan, S. R. Bank, and J. C. Campbell, "High Gain, Low Dark Current Al0. 8In0. 2As0. 23Sb0. 77 Avalanche Photodiodes," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 31, no. 24, pp. 1948-1951, Dec 2019.
- J. Zheng, Y. Yuan, Y. Tan, Y. Peng, A. K. Rockwell, S. R. Bank, A. W. Ghosh, and J. C. Campbell, "Simulations for InAlAs digital alloy avalanche photodiodes," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 115, no. 17, pp. 171106, Oct 2019.
- Y. Yuan, J. Zheng, K. Sun, A. H. Jones, A. K. Rockwell, S. D. March, Y. Shen, S. R. Bank, and J. C. Campbell, "Stark‐Localization‐Limited Franz–Keldysh Effect in InAlAs Digital Alloys," physica status solidi (RRL) – Rapid Research Letters, vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 1900272, Jun 2019.
- Y. Yuan, A. K. Rockwell, Y. Peng, J. Zheng, S. D. March, A. H. Jones, S. R. Bank, and J. C. Campbell, "Comparison of Different Period Digital Alloy Al0. 7InAsSb Avalanche Photodiodes," Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 37, no. 14, pp. 3647-3654, May 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.
- D. J. Ironside, R. Salas, P. Chen, K. Q. Le, A. Alu, and S. R. Bank, "Enhancing THz generation in photomixers using a metamaterial approach," Optics Express, vol. 27, no. 7, pp. 9481-9494, Mar 2019.
- Y. Yuan, J. Zheng, A. K. Rockwell, S. D. March, S. R. Bank, and J. C. Campbell, "AlInAsSb Impact Ionization Coefficients," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 31, no. 4, Feb 2019.
- J. Zheng, Y. Yuan, Y. Tan, Y. Peng, A. K. Rockwell, S. R. Bank, A. W. Ghosh, and J. C. Campbell, "Digital Alloy InAlAs Avalanche Photodiodes," Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 36, no. 17, pp. 3580-3585, Sep 2018.
- Y. Yuan, J. Zheng, Y. Tan, Y. Peng, A. K. Rockwell, S. R. Bank, A. W. Ghosh, and J. C. Campbell, "Temperature dependence of the ionization coefficients of InAlAs and AlGaAs digital alloys," Photon. Res., vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 794-799, Aug 2018.
- 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, Y. Yuan, A. H. Jones, S. D. March, S. R. Bank, and J. C. Campbell, "Al0. 8In0. 2As0. 23Sb0. 77 Avalanche Photodiodes," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 30, pp. 1048-1051, Jun 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, 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.
- A. H. Jones, Y. Yuan, M. Ren, S. J. Maddox, S. R. Bank, and J. C. Campbell, "AlxIn1-xAsySb1-y photodiodes with low avalanche breakdown temperature dependence," Optics Express, vol. 25, no. 20, pp. 24340–24345, Oct 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- E. M. Krivoy, S. Rahimi, H. P. Nair, R. Salas, S. J. Maddox, D. J. Ironside, Y. Jiang, G. Kelp, G. Shvets, D. Akinwande, and S. R. Bank, "Growth and characterization of single crystal rocksalt LaAs using LuAs barrier layers," APL, vol. 101, no. 22, pp. 221908, Nov 2012.
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.
- B. D. Aguilar, A. M. García, A. M. Skipper, D. J. Ironside, and S. R. Bank, "Effects of Molecular Beam Epitaxy Selective Area Growth Techniques on III-V Optical Quality," 66th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), College Park, Maryland, Jun 2024.
- A. M. García, A. M. Skipper, D. J. Ironside, and S. R. Bank, "Feature-Independent Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Selective Area Regrowth Towards Embedding High Aspect Ratio Microstructures," 36th North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conf. (NAMBE), Rehoboth Beach, DE, Sep 2022.
- A. M. Skipper, A. H. Jones, M. K. Bergthold, A. J. Muhowski, A. M. García, D. J. Ironside, D. Wasserman, J. C. Campbell, and S. R. Bank, "Selective Area Epitaxy by MBE for Self-Aligned III-V Devices," 64th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Columbus, OH, Jun 2022.
- A. M. García, A. M. Skipper, D. J. Ironside, and S. R. Bank, "Molecular Beam Epitaxy Selective Area Regrowth of High Aspect Ratio Microstructures," 64th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Columbus, OH, Jun 2022.
- A. M. Skipper, A. M. García, D. J. Ironside, D. Wasserman, and S. R. Bank, "Selective Area Doping and Lateral Overgrowth by Solid-Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy," 63nd Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Virtual, Jun 2021.
- A. M. García, A. M. Skipper, D. J. Ironside, and S. R. Bank, "Experimentally-Calibrated Modeling of Molecular Beam Epitaxy Selective Area Regrowth," 63nd Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Virtual, Jun 2021.
- (Invited) S. R. Bank, X. Xue, S. D. March, Y. Yuan, A. H. Jones, A. K. Rockwell, and J. C. Campbell, "Towards Single Photon Counting at Room Temperature with Digital Alloy Avalanche Photodiodes," IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics in Defense (RAPID), Miramar Beach, FL, Aug 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.
- A. M. Skipper, Y. Fang, F. He, A. J. Muhowski, D. J. Ironside, D. Wasserman, Y. Wang, M. J. Rodwell, and S. R. Bank, "Monolithic Integration of Patterned Metal-Dielectric Stacks Overgrown with III-V Semiconductors by Molecular Beam Epitaxy," 62nd Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Columbus, OH, Jun 2020.
- A. M. García, A. M. Skipper, D. J. Ironside, and S. R. Bank, "Optimization of All-MBE Selective Area Epitaxial Overgrowth Method," 62nd Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Columbus, OH, Jun 2020.
- A. K. Rockwell, A. H. Jones, Y. Yuan, X. Xue, S. D. March, J. C. Campbell, and S. R. Bank, "Temperature Stability of III-V Digital Alloy Bandgaps," 62nd Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Columbus, OH, Jun 2020.
- A. M. Skipper, P. Petluru, A. M. García, D. J. Ironside, A. J. Muhowski, D. Wasserman, and S. R. Bank, "Mid-Infrared Plasmonic Corrugations," 62nd Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Columbus, OH, Jun 2020.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- A. K. Rockwell, M. Ren, M. E. Woodson, A. H. Jones, S. D. March, Y. Tan, Y. Yuan, S. J. Maddox, A. W. Ghosh, J. C. Campbell, and S. R. Bank, "Band Structure Influence on Noise Properties of III-V Digital Alloys," 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.