Semiconductor-based freestanding membranes (FSM) have recently emerged as a highly
promising area of advanced materials research. Their unique properties, such as lightweight …

Germanium (Ge) is increasingly used as a substrate for high-performance optoelectronics,
photovoltaics, and electronic devices. These devices are usually grown on thick and rigid Ge …

Flexible optoelectronics have attracted much attention in recent years for their potential
applications in healthcare and wearable devices. Narrow bandgap (NBG) semiconductor …

Semiconductor membranes emerged as a versatile class of nanomaterials to control lattice
strain and engineer complex heterostructures enabling a variety of innovative applications …

Free-standing crystalline membranes are highly desirable owing to recent developments in
heterogeneous integration of dissimilar materials. Van der Waals (vdW) epitaxy enables the …

This work presents a novel method to introduce a sustainable biaxial tensile strain larger
than 1% in a thin Ge membrane using a stressor layer integrated on a Si substrate. Raman …

Free-standing single crystalline semiconductor membranes have gained intensive attention
over the last few years due to their versatile usage in many applications. This material …

Solar cells from III-V materials offer outstanding light conversion efficiency and power
densities and have a proven reliability record. Nevertheless, the utilization of III-V devices …

Epitaxial growth using graphene (GR), weakly bonded by van der Waals force, is a subject
of interest for fabricating technologically important semiconductor membranes. Such …

We have successfully used hydrophobic direct-wafer bonding, along with H-induced layer
splitting of Ge, to transfer 700-nm-thick, single-crystal Ge (100) films to Si (100) substrates …