Semiconductor core fibres: materials science in a bottle

UJ Gibson, L Wei, J Ballato - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Novel core fibers have a wide range of applications in optics, as sources, detectors and
nonlinear response media. Optoelectronic, and even electronic device applications are now …

Localised structuring of metal-semiconductor cores in silica clad fibres using laser-driven thermal gradients

S Song, F Laurell, B Meehan, TW Hawkins… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The molten core drawing method allows scalable fabrication of novel core fibres with
kilometre lengths. With metal and semiconducting components combined in a glass-clad …

Laser restructuring and photoluminescence of glass-clad GaSb/Si-core optical fibres

S Song, K Lønsethagen, F Laurell, TW Hawkins… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Semiconductor-core optical fibres have potential applications in photonics and
optoelectronics due to large nonlinear optical coefficients and an extended transparency …

Laser-driven phase segregation and tailoring of compositionally graded microstructures in Si–Ge nanoscale thin films

O Aktas, SZ Oo, SJ MacFarquhar, V Mittal… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The ability to manipulate the composition of semiconductor alloys on demand and at
nanometer-scale resolutions is a powerful tool that could be exploited to tune key properties …