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.
- J. S. Harris, R. Kudrawiec, H. B. Yuen, S. R. Bank, H. P. Bae, M. A. Wistey, D. B. Jackrel, E. R. Pickett, T. Sarmiento, L. L. Goddard, V. Lordi, and T. Gugov, "Development of GaInNAsSb alloys: Growth, band structure, optical properties and applications," Physica Status Solidi (b), vol. 244, no. 8, pp. 2707-2729, Jul 2007.
- M. A. Wistey, S. R. Bank, H. B. Yuen, L. L. Goddard, T. Gugov, and J. S. Harris, "Protecting wafer surface during plasma ignition using an arsenic cap," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 1324-1327, May 2005.
- T. Gugov, V. Gambin, M. A. Wistey, H. B. Yuen, S. R. Bank, and J. S. Harris, "Use of transmission electron microscopy in the characterization of GaInNAs(Sb) quantum well structures grown by molecular beam epitaxy," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 1588-1592, May 2004.
Conference Paper
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- M. A. Wistey, S. R. Bank, H. B. Yuen, T. Gugov, and J. S. Harris, "Protecting Wafer Surface During GaInNAs Plasma Ignition by Use of an Arsenic Cap," North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conf. (NAMBE), Banff, Alberta, Canada, Oct 2004.
- T. Gugov, V. Gambin, M. A. Wistey, H. B. Yuen, S. R. Bank, and J. S. Harris, "TEM Structural Characterization of GaInNAs and GaInNAsSb Quantum Wells Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy," 46th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Notre Dame, IN, Jun 2004.
- T. Gugov, M. A. Wistey, H. B. Yuen, S. R. Bank, and J. S. Harris, "Structural Characterization of Molecular Beam Epitaxy Grown GaInNAs and GaInNAsSb Quantum Wells by Transmission Electron Microscopy," Materials Research Symposium (MRS), San Francisco, CA, Apr 2004.
- T. Gugov, V. Gambin, M. A. Wistey, H. B. Yuen, S. R. Bank, and J. S. Harris, "Use of Transmission Electron Microscopy in the Characterization of GaInNAs(Sb) Quantum Well Structures Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy," North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conf. (NAMBE), Keystone, CO, Oct 2003.