Publications
Journal Article
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- K. Appaiah, S. Zisman, A. Kumar. Das, S. Vishwanath, and S. R. Bank, "Analysis of Laser and Detector Placement in Incoherent MIMO Multimode Fiber Systems," IEEE J. Opt. Commun. Netw., vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1, Apr 2014.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- D. J. Ironside, A. M. Skipper, and S. R. Bank, "Self-formed Embedded Conical-like Air Voids in MBE-grown Materials using Dielectric-templated Pillar Arrays on (001) III-V Substrates," 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.
- A. M. Skipper, D. J. Ironside, and S. R. Bank, "Monolithic Fabrication of Air Gratings in MBE-Grown GaAs," 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.
- 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.
- D. J. Ironside, A. M. Skipper, T. A. Leonard, E. S. Walker, S. D. March, L. J. Nordin, D. Wasserman, and S. R. Bank, "Epitaxial Integration of High-Contrast Photonic Structures," 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, 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.
- D. J. Ironside, A. M. Crook, A. M. Skipper, and S. R. Bank, "Optimal Integration of Rare-Earth Monopnictide Nanostructures in III-V for High Optical Quality Applications," 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.
- D. J. Ironside, E. M. Krivoy, V. D. Dasika, E. S. Walker, K. Nguyen, J. Jeong, Y. Wang, and S. R. Bank, "Tailored III-V Metamorphic Buffer Layers utilizing Embedded Rare Earth Monopnictides for Optoelectronic Applications," 57th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Columbus, OH, Jun 2015.
- 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.