Publications
Conference Paper
- (Sep. 14–17, 2026; Invited) S. R. Bank, and J. C. Campbell, "Linear and Geiger Mode Digital Alloy Avalanche Photodiodes," 45th U.S. Workshop on II-VI and Infrared Materials, Seaside, CA, USA, Sep 2026.

- (Jul. 12–16, 2026; Invited) and S. R. Bank, "Digital Alloys for Quantum Photonics," 24th International Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (ICMBE), Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Jul 2026.

- A. F. Ricks, C. White, Y. Yu, H. Hijazi, X. Pan, L. C. Feldman, and S. R. Bank, "Optimizing Growth Conditions for InSbBi and AlInSbBi for Novel nBn Photodetectors," 24th International Conf. on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (ICMBE), Ann Arbor Michigan, Jul 2026.
- E. Y. Wang, H. Karimi, J. E. Beardshear, M. Waqar, Y. Ju, X. Pan, J. C. Campbell, and S. R. Bank, "Effect of Period Structure Variation on Material Quality of AlInAsSb Digital Alloys on InP," 68th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Ann Arbor Michigan, Jun 2026.
- (Jun. 21–24, 2026; Invited) S. R. Bank, and J. C. Campbell, "Digital Alloy Avalanche Photodiodes for Quantum Photonics," 84th Device Research Conference (DRC), Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Jun 2026.

- A. F. Ricks, C. White, Y. Yu, H. Hijazi, X. Pan, L. C. Feldman, and S. R. Bank, "Defining the Growth Space for InSbBi and AlInSbBi for Novel nBn Photodetectors," 68th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Ann Arbor Michigan, Jun 2026.
- J. LaMountain, A. Ware, S. R. Bank, D. Wasserman, E. Narimanov, and V. Podolskiy, "Optical Nonlinearity in Primordial Metamaterials," CLEO 2026, pp. FTU2A.3, May 2026.

- Q. Lin, H. Karimi, K. Fang, J. Bai, E. Wang, S. R. Bank, and J. C. Campbell, "All-Dielectric Amorphous-Ge Grating for High-Efficiency 2 µm AlInAsSb SACM Photodiodes," CLEO 2026, pp. STH4C.1, May 2026.

- K. Circir, D. J. Herrera, J. A. McArthur, E. Y. Wang, T. Fatema, A. Beling, S. R. Bank, and J. C. Campbell, "Characterization of edge-coupled digital alloy AlInAsSb SPADs," Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XXXIV, San Jose, Mar 2026.
- K. Circir, .E . Y. Wang, J. A. McArthur, A. A. Dadey, D. Herrera, S. R. Bank, and J. C. Campbell, "Digital Alloy AlInAsSb eSWIR nBn Photodetectors," CLEO 2026, pp. STH4C.3, Mar 2026.

- S. Bettadpur, M. Holland, C. LeDesma, D. Anderson, P. Axelrad, M. Nicotra, S. R. Bank, U. Topcu, D. Wasserman, D. Blumenthal, M. Stephens, and M. Watkins, "Innovation and Progress at the Quantum Pathways Institute - A status Update," EGU26, Mar 2026.

- A. H. Jones, Q. Meng, A. A. Dadey, R. C. White, R. H. El-Jaroudi, M. A. Wistey, S. R. Bank, and J. C. Campbell, "Thermally Characterizing BGaInAs Photodiode Alloys," CLEO 2025, pp. SS136_5, Dec 2025.

- S. Bettadpur, U. Topcu, S. R. Bank, D. Wasserman, M. Holland, D. Anderson, P. Axelrad, M. Nicotra, D. Blumenthal, M. Watkins, and M. Stephens, "Quantum Pathways Institute contributions to a roadmap for technical implementation and scientific interpretation of a spaceborne quantum gravity gradiometer.," EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, EGU25-20699, Dec 2025.

- S. V. Bettadpur, U. Topcu, S. R. Bank, D. Wasserman, M. Holland, D. Anderson, and o., "Quantum Pathways Institute (QPI): Status and progress towards high- precision spaceborne inertial sensing and gradiometry.," AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2025, G23A-09, Dec 2025.

- V. A. Podolskiy, J. LaMountain, A. Ware, C. White, S. R. Bank, D. Wasserman, and E. Narimanov, "Primordial metamaterials," Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2025, San Diego, California, Sep 2025.
- E. Y. Wang, J. A. McArthur, H. Karimi, J. C. Campbell, and S. R. Bank, "Effect of Uncracked Group V Species on Unintentional Doping Concentration in AlInAsSb," 39th North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conf. (NAMBE), Albuquerque, New Mexico, Aug 2025.
- A. F. Ricks, C. White, H. Hijazi, L. C. Feldman, and S. R. Bank, "Improved Bi Incorporation in InSbBi and AlInSbBi for Novel nBn Photodetectors," 39th North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conf. (NAMBE), Albuquerque, New Mexico, Aug 2025.
- A. Garcia, W. Doyle, Y. Wang, C. White, B. Aguilar, M. Lee, D. Wasserman, and S. R. Bank, "GaP Planar Coalescence Over Embedded Dielectric Gratings by Molecular Beam Epitaxy," 39th North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conf. (NAMBE), Albuquerque, New Mexico, Aug 2025.
- E. Y. Wang, J. A. McArthur, H. Karimi, J. C. Campbell, and S. R. Bank, "Effect of Uncracked Group V Species on Unintentional Doping Concentration in AlInAsSb," 67th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Durham, North Carolina, Jun 2025.
- A. F. Ricks, C. White, H. Hijazi, L. C. Feldman, and S. R. Bank, "Improved Bi Incorporation in InSbBi and AlInSbBi for Novel nBn Photodetectors," 67th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Durham, North Carolina, Jun 2025.
- W. Doyle, A. Garcia, B. Aguilar, S. R. Bank, and D. Wasserman, "Out-diffusion of Rubidium-87 from Thin Films for the Filling of Chip-Scale Vapor Cells," 67th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Durham, North Carolina, Jun 2025.
- A. Garcia, W. Doyle, Y. Wang, C. White, B. Aguilar, M. Lee, D. Wasserman, and S. R. Bank, "GaP Planar Coalescence Over Embedded Dielectric Gratings by Molecular Beam Epitaxy," 67th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Durham, North Carolina, Jun 2025.
- P. Devaney, K. C. Wen, R. Ramesh, A. F. Ricks, M. Waqar, M. Brown, C. Du, S. Esfahani, A. Alu, D. Wasserman, X. Pan, S. Shakkotai, and S. R. Bank, "Design of Large Engineered Second-Order Optical Nonlinearities with Machine Learning," 67th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Durham, North Carolina, Jun 2025.
- J. Beardshear, E. Y. Wang, A. Ware, N. Mansfield, D. Wasserman, S. Shakkottai, and S. R. Bank, "Design and Optimization of Optical Spectra in AlGaInAsSb Digital Alloys for LWIR Photodetectors," 67th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Durham, North Carolina, Jun 2025.
- B. D. Aguilar, A. McArthur, E. Y. Wang, H. Karimi, D. J. Herrera, E. Simmons, A. Talanov, K. Dorsey, J. C. Campbell, S. Shakkottai, and S. R. Bank, "Optimizing Surface Grating Structures or Enhanced Absorption in AlInAsSb Avalanche Photodiodes," 67th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Durham, North Carolina, Jun 2025.
- N. C. Mansfield, Z. Sarkotic, A. Raju, A. Ware, D. Hungund, D. Krueger, E. Y. Wang, S. R. Bank, and D. Wasserman, "Infrared Metaplasmonics," 67th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Durham, North Carolina, Jun 2025.
- P. U. Fathi, M. Ossiander, A. F. Ricks, K. Wen, T. Letsou, C. Spagele, P. Devaney, R. Ramesh, J. Duncan, A. Portes, J. Park, S. R. Bank, and F. Capasso, "Enhancing second harmonic generation with digital alloy usuing metasurfaces," Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion: Materials and Devices XXIV), San Francisco, California, Mar 2025.
- S. V. Bettadpur, M. Holland, D. Anderson, P. Axelrad, M. Nicotra, M. M. Watkins, and o., "Quantum Pathways Institute: A NASA/STRI For the Advancement of Quantum Sensing for Earth Science Remote Sensing-Status Update and Progress in First Year of Operation, and âŠ," AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts 2024, G31A-02, Dec 2024.

- Y. L. Simmons, K. Dickson, A. F. Ricks, A. M. Skipper, A. F. Briggs, A. J. Muhowski, S. R. Bank, and J. T. Gopinath, "Impact of Mechanical Strain on Auger Recombination in InGaAs/InP," CLEO 2024, pp. JTh2A.14, Dec 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.
- M. C. Cassidy, J. Duncan, A. M. García, W. J. Doyle, D. Wasserman, and S. R. Bank, "Selective Area Regrowth for Chipscale Trapped Atom/Ion Quantum Systems," 66th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), College Park, Maryland, Jun 2024.
- P. Devaney, K. C. Wen, R. Ramesh, N. Irwin, A. F. Ricks, S. Shakkottai, and S. R. Bank, "Blackbox Machine Learning for Nonlinear Materials Design," 66th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), College Park, Maryland, Jun 2024.
- T. Dey, A. W. Arbogast, Q. Meng, M. Reaz. Munna, K. Alam, S. R. Bank, and M. A. Wistey, "Influences of Carbon Tetrabromide (CBr4) and Tin Fluxes on GeCSn Growth," 66th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), College Park, Maryland, Jun 2024.
- J. Duncan, R. Ramesh, A. F. Ricks, M. Brown, Z. Sakotic, F. A. Estévez, F. Shafiei, M. W. Downer, D. Wasserman, and S. R. Bank, "Optical Structuring to Reliably Determine Interband Optical Nonlinearity via Second Harmonic Generation," 66th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), College Park, Maryland, Jun 2024.
- 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.
- J. A. McArthur, A. A. Dadey, E. Y. Wang, H. Karimi, J. C. Campbell, and S. R. Bank, "Suppressing AlInAsSb Avalanche Photodiode Dark Currents by Tuning the Absorption Region," 66th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), College Park, Maryland, Jun 2024.
- Q. Meng, R. C. White, R. H. El-Jaroudi, T. Dey, L. Gelczuk, R. Kudrawiec, S. R. Bank, and M. A. Wistey, "Improvement in Optical Quality Upon Annealing in B-III-V Alloys," 66th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), College Park, Maryland, Jun 2024.
- Q. Meng, R. H. El-Jaroudi, R. C. White, H. S. Maczko, T. Dey, R. Kudrawiec, S. R. Bank, and M. A. Wistey, "Bandgap Evolution in B-III-V Alloys," 66th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), College Park, Maryland, Jun 2024.
- A. F. Ricks, R. C. White, Q. Meng, H. Hijazi, M. A. Wistey, and S. R. Bank, "Bismuth Incorporation in AlInSb for an Improved Barrier Layer Material," 66th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), College Park, Maryland, Jun 2024.
- A. F. Ricks, K. C. Wen, M. Brown, Z. Sakotic, M. Waqar, X. Pan, D. Wasserman, and S. R. Bank, "Coupled Quantum Well Interface Quality and Second-Harmonic Generation Effects," 66th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), College Park, Maryland, Jun 2024.
- E. Y. Wang, J. A. McArthur, H. Karimi, P. Devaney, J. C. Campbell, and S. R. Bank, "Effect of Varying Period Structure on Tunneling Current in AlInAsSb Digital Alloys," 66th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), College Park, Maryland, Jun 2024.
- E. Y. Wang, H. Karimi, M. Waqar, X. Pan, J. C. Campbell, and S. R. Bank, "Growth and Characterization of Ternary-Containing AlInAsSb Digital Alloys," 66th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), College Park, Maryland, Jun 2024.
- K. C. Wen, P. Devaney, R. Ramesh, A. F. Ricks, Q. Meng, Z. Sakotic, D. Wasserman, J. B. Khurgin, and S. R. Bank, "Semiconductor Quantum Well Structures with Large Third-order Interband Optical Nonlinearities," 66th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), College Park, Maryland, Jun 2024.
- R. C. White, M. K. Bergthold, A. F. Ricks, F. A. Estévez, D. Wasserman, and S. R. Bank, "Bismuth Incorporation into InSb Towards Long-Wave Infrared Photodetectors," 66th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), College Park, Maryland, Jun 2024.
- T. Dey, A. W. Arbogast, Q. Meng, S. Reza, A. Muhowski, J. Cooper, R. S. Goldman, T. Borrely, S. R. Bank, and M. A. Wistey, "Why Room Temperature GeSn Lasers Need Carbon," 2023 IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference (SiPhotonics), pp. 1–2, Dec 2023.

- S. V. Bettadpur, P. Axelrad, M. Holland, D. Anderson, M. Nicotra, M. Stephens, D. Blumenthal, U. Topcu, D. Wasserman, M. M. Watkins, and S. R. Bank, "The quantum pathways institute (QPI)-developing spaceborne quantum 2. 0 sensing for next generation mass change measurement," AGU23, San Francisco, CA, Dec 2023.
- N. M. Litchinitser, H. B. Sedeh, N. Chandra, L. Feng, and S. R. Bank, "Linear and nonlinear photonic engineering using supersymmetry," Active Photonic Platforms (APP) 2023, San Diego, CA, Oct 2023.
- A. M. García, A. M. Skipper, M. K. Bergthold, and S. R. Bank, "SiO2 Surface Planarization for Selective Area Regrowth of High Aspect Ratio Microstructures," 37th North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conf. (NAMBE), Madison, WI, Sep 2023.
- R. C. White, M. K. Bergthold, T. A. Leonard, A. F. Ricks, D. Wasserman, and S. R. Bank, "InSb-Based Dilute-Bismide Alloys Towards Long-Wave Infrared Sensing," 37th North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conf. (NAMBE), Madison, WI, Sep 2023.
- A. M. García, A. M. Skipper, M. K. Bergthold, and S. R. Bank, "SiO2 Surface Planarization for Molecular Beam Epitaxy Selective Area Regrowth of High Aspect Ratio Microstructures," 65th Electronic Materials Conf. (EMC), Santa Barbara, CA, Jun 2023.