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.
- 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.
- 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.
- X. Li, V. D. Dasika, P. Li, L. Ji, S. R. Bank, and E. T. Yu, "Minimized open-circuit voltage reduction in GaAs/InGaAs quantum well solar cells with bandgap-engineered graded quantum well depths," APL, vol. 105, no. 12, pp. 123906, Sep 2014.
- A. Majumdar, A. Rundquist, M. Bajcsy, V. D. Dasika, S. R. Bank, and J. Vuckovic, "Design and analysis of photonic crystal coupled cavity arrays for quantum simulation," Phys. Rev. B, vol. 86, pp. 195312, Nov 2012.
- E. M. Krivoy, H. P. Nair, A. M. Crook, S. Rahimi, S. J. Maddox, R. Salas, D. A. Ferrer, V. D. Dasika, D. Akinwande, and S. R. Bank, "Growth and characterization of LuAs films and nanostructures," APL, vol. 101, no. 14, pp. 141910, Oct 2012.
- K. W. Park, V. D. Dasika, H. P. Nair, A. M. Crook, S. R. Bank, and E. T. Yu, "Conductivity and structure of ErAs nanoparticles embedded in GaAs pn junctions analyzed via conductive atomic force microscopy," APL, vol. 100, no. 23, pp. 233117, Jun 2012.
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.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- D. J. Ironside, E. M. Krivoy, V. D. Dasika, and S. R. Bank, "Dislocation-filtering with Rare-earth Monopnictide Nanoparticles Embedded in Metamorphic Buffer Layers," International Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conf. (ICMBE), Flagstaff, AZ, Sep 2014.
- 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.
- S. J. Maddox, A. P. Vasudev, V. D. Dasika, S. D. March, M. L. Brongersma, and S. R. Bank, "Effects of Growth Rate, Substrate Temperature, and a Bi Surfactant on Doping Limits in InAs:Si Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy," 56th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Santa Barbara, CA, Jun 2014.
- A. K. Rockwell, S. J. Maddox, R. Salas, V. D. Dasika, and S. R. Bank, "Rapid Thermal Annealing of Ion Implanted InAs:S for Mid-IR Plasmonics," 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.
- 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. J. Maddox, A. P. Vasudev, V. D. Dasika, M. L. Brongersma, and S. R. Bank, "Exploring the Limits of Silicon Doping in InAs for Mid-Infrared Plasmonics," North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conf. (NAMBE), Banff, Alberta, Canada, Oct 2013.
- S. J. Maddox, K. M. Yu, A. J. Ptak, H. P. Nair, V. D. Dasika, and S. R. Bank, "Optical and Structural Characterization of InAsBi and InGaAsBi Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy," 55th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), South Bend, IN, Jun 2013.
- A. Rundquist, A. Majumdar, M. Bajcsy, V. D. Dasika, S. R. Bank, and J. Vuckovic, "Photonic crystal coupled cavity arrays for quantum simulation," Conf. on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, Jun 2013.
- 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, "InAs Quantum Dot Growth using Bismuth as a Surfactant for Optoelectronic Applications," Conf. on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, Jun 2013.
- E. M. Krivoy, A. P. Vasudev, H. P. Nair, V. D. Dasika, R. A. Synowicki, R. Salas, S. J. Maddox, M. L. Brongersma, and S. R. Bank, "Tunable, Epitaxial, Semimetallic Films for Plasmonics," Conf. on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, Jun 2013.
- S. J. Maddox, A. P. Vasudev, V. D. Dasika, M. L. Brongersma, and S. R. Bank, "Bismuth Surfactant-Mediated Epitaxy of Highly Doped InAs for Mid-Infrared Plasmonics," North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conf. (NAMBE), Stone Mountain Park, GA, Oct 2012.
- (Invited) S. R. Bank, E. M. Krivoy, A. M. Crook, H. P. Nair, R. Salas, and V. D. Dasika, "New Epitaxial Metallic Nanostructure Materials for Photonic Devices," SPIE Optics and Photonics Meeting, San Diego, CA, Aug 2012.
- S. J. Maddox, H. P. Nair, V. D. Dasika, E. M. Krivoy, R. Salas, and S. R. Bank, "Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth-Space Investigation of InAsBi and InGaAsBi on InAs," International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS), Santa Barbara, CA, Aug 2012.
- K. W. Park, V. D. Dasika, H. P. Nair, A. M. Crook, S. R. Bank, and E. T. Yu, "Scanned Probe Characterization of ErAs/GaAs Nanostructures below the Resolution Limit via Statistical Analysis," International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS), Santa Barbara, CA, Aug 2012.
- S. J. Maddox, H. P. Nair, V. D. Dasika, E. M. Krivoy, R. Salas, and S. R. Bank, "Molecular Beam Epitaxial Growth and Optical Quality of InAsBi," 54th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), State College, PA, Jun 2012.
- V. D. Dasika, E. M. Krivoy, H. P. Nair, K. W. Park, E. T. Yu, and S. R. Bank, "InAs Quantum Dot Growth using Bi as a Surfactant," 54th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), University Park, PA, Jun 2012.
- E. M. Krivoy, S. J. Maddox, H. P. Nair, A. M. Crook, V. D. Dasika, D. A. Ferrer, and S. R. Bank, "LuAs films and nanostructures," North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conf. (NAMBE), San Diego, CA, Aug 2011.
- S. Vaithilingam, I. O. Wygant, S. D. Sifferman, X. Zhuang, Y. Furukawa, O. Oralkan, S. Keren, S. S. Gambhir, and B. T. Khuri-Yakub, "Tomographic Photoacoustic Imaging Using Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUT) Technology," 2006 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Ultrasonics Symposium, 2006. IEEE, pp. 397-400, Oct 2006.