Heteroepitaxial growth of III-V semiconductors on silicon

JS Park, M Tang, S Chen, H Liu - Crystals, 2020 - mdpi.com
Monolithic integration of III-V semiconductor devices on Silicon (Si) has long been of great
interest in photonic integrated circuits (PICs), as well as traditional integrated circuits (ICs) …

New approaches and understandings in the growth of cubic silicon carbide

FL Via, M Zimbone, C Bongiorno, A La Magna… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this review paper, several new approaches about the 3C-SiC growth are been presented.
In fact, despite the long research activity on 3C-SiC, no devices with good electrical …

Faceting of Si and Ge crystals grown on deeply patterned Si substrates in the kinetic regime: phase-field modelling and experiments

M Albani, R Bergamaschini, A Barzaghi… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The development of three-dimensional architectures in semiconductor technology is paving
the way to new device concepts for various applications, from quantum computing to single …

Dislocation-Free SiGe/Si Heterostructures

F Montalenti, F Rovaris, R Bergamaschini, L Miglio… - Crystals, 2018 - mdpi.com
Ge vertical heterostructures grown on deeply-patterned Si (001) were first obtained in 2012
(CV Falub et al., Science 2012, 335, 1330–1334), immediately capturing attention due to the …

Growth and coalescence of 3C-SiC on Si (111) micro-pillars by a phase-field approach

M Masullo, R Bergamaschini, M Albani, T Kreiliger… - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
3C-SiC is a promising material for low-voltage power electronic devices but its growth is still
challenging. Heteroepitaxy of 3C-SiC on Si micrometer-sized pillars is regarded as a viable …

GaAs epilayers grown on patterned (001) silicon substrates via suspended Ge layers

A Ballabio, S Bietti, A Scaccabarozzi, L Esposito… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
We demonstrate the growth of low density anti-phase boundaries, crack-free GaAs
epilayers, by Molecular Beam Epitaxy on silicon (001) substrates. The method relies on the …

[HTML][HTML] Solving the critical thermal bowing in 3C-SiC/Si (111) by a tilting Si pillar architecture

M Albani, A Marzegalli, R Bergamaschini… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The exceptionally large thermal strain in few-micrometers-thick 3C-SiC films on Si (111),
causing severe wafer bending and cracking, is demonstrated to be elastically quenched by …

Epitaxial growth of InAs/GaAs quantum dots on {113}-faceted Ge/Si (001) hollow substrate

JY Zhang, WQ Wei, JH Wang, H Cong… - Optical Materials …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The direct epitaxial growth of GaAs on Si suffers from their nature of lattice mismatch,
thermal mismatch and polarity difference induced anti-phase domains (APDs). Here, we …

X-ray rocking curve imaging on large arrays of extremely tall SiGe microcrystals epitaxial on Si

M Meduňa, O Caha, E Choumas… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - journals.iucr.org
This work investigates layers of densely spaced SiGe microcrystals epitaxially formed on
patterned Si and grown up to extreme heights of 40 and 100 µm using the rocking curve …

Effect of Nano-Silica on Mechanical Properties and Cytotoxicity of Calcium-Silicate-Based Root Canal Filling Materials

H He, B Hao, X Xiong, Y Cheng, J Lou, Z He, D Li… - Crystals, 2025 - mdpi.com
A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of nano-silica (NS) content on the strength and
cytotoxicity of calcium-silicate-based root canal filling materials. In this experimental …