Absorptive loss and band non-parabolicity as a physical origin of large nonlinearity in epsilon-near-zero materials

R Secondo, J Khurgin, N Kinsey - Optical Materials Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
For decades, nonlinear optics has been used to control the frequency and propagation of
light in unique ways enabling a wide range of applications such as ultrafast lasing, sub …

Influence of oxygen partial pressure on the strain behaviour of reactively co-sputtered Ga doped ZnO thin films

SK Appani, D Singh, R Nandi, DS Sutar, SS Major - Thin Solid Films, 2023 - Elsevier
Gallium doped ZnO films (GZO) were deposited by reactive co-sputtering of Zn and GaAs at
different partial pressures of oxygen in Ar-O 2 mixture. The GZO films were deposited at 375° …

High‐Quality Plasmonic Materials TiN and ZnO: Al by Atomic Layer Deposition

N Izyumskaya, D Fomra, K Ding… - physica status solidi …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electromagnetic radiation when coupled to collective oscillations of free electrons, dubbed
as plasmonics, makes it possible to manipulate light at dimensions well below the diffraction …

Investigation of dual-ion beam sputter-instigated plasmon generation in TCOs: a case study of GZO

V Garg, BS Sengar, V Awasthi, A Kumar… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The use of the high free-electron concentration in heavily doped semiconductor enables the
realization of plasmons. We report a novel approach to generate plasmons in Ga: ZnO …

[HTML][HTML] Deterministic modeling of hybrid nonlinear effects in epsilon-near-zero thin films

R Secondo, A Ball, B Diroll, D Fomra, K Ding… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
In nonlinear optics, significant effort is concentrated on improving the strength and efficiency
of interactions; however, experimentally investigating nonlinear materials is a complex, time …

Electron scattering mechanisms in fluorine-doped SnO2 thin films

G Rey, C Ternon, M Modreanu, X Mescot… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Polycrystalline fluorine-doped SnO 2 (FTO) thin films have been grown by ultrasonic spray
pyrolysis on glass substrate. By varying growth conditions, several FTO specimens have …

Enhanced electron mobility due to dopant‐defect pairing in conductive ZnMgO

Y Ke, S Lany, JJ Berry, JD Perkins… - Advanced Functional …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The increase of the band gap in Zn1‐xMgxO alloys with added Mg facilitates tunable control
of the conduction band alignment and the Fermi‐level position in oxide‐heterostructures …

Comparative performance evaluation of transparent conducting oxides with different mobilities for all-optical switching in silicon

J Navarro-Arenas, J Parra… - IEEE Journal of Quantum …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
All-optical switching is an appealing approach for signal processing, optical communications
or sensing systems. In this work, we compare the performance of doped cadmium oxide …

RF magnetron sputtering processed transparent conductive aluminum doped ZnO thin films with excellent optical and electrical properties

C Zhao, J Liu, Y Guo, Y Pan, X Hu, G Weng… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - Springer
Aluminum doped ZnO thin films (AZO), which simultaneously transmit light and conduct
electrical current, are widely applied in photovoltaic devices. To achieve high performance …

Al: ZnO as a platform for near-zero-index photonics: enhancing the doping efficiency of atomic layer deposition

D Fomra, K Ding, V Avrutin, Ü Özgür… - Optical Materials …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Major technological breakthroughs are often driven by advancements in materials research,
and optics is no different. Over the last few years, near-zero-index (NZI) materials have …