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Publications (33)

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Combined Iodine- and Sulfur-based Treatments for an Effective Passivation of GeSn Surface

Léonor Groell, Anis Attiaoui, Simone Assali +1

GeSn alloys are metastable semiconductors that have been proposed as building blocks for silicon-integrated short-wave and mid-wave infrared photonic and sensing platforms. Exploit…

physics.optics2022

Extended-SWIR Photodetection in All-Group IV Core/Shell Nanowires

Lu Luo, Simone Assali, Mahmoud R. M. Atalla +6

Group IV Ge1-xSnx semiconductors hold the premise of enabling broadband silicon-integrated infrared optoelectronics due to their tunable bandgap energy and directness. Herein, we e…

physics.app-ph2020

All-Group IV membrane room-temperature mid-infrared photodetector

Mahmoud R. M. Atalla, Simone Assali, Anis Attiaoui +4

Strain engineering has been a ubiquitous paradigm to tailor the electronic band structure and harness the associated new or enhanced fundamental properties in semiconductors. In th…

physics.app-ph2019

Strain engineering in Ge/GeSn core/shell nanowires

Simone Assali, Marco Albani, Roberto Bergamaschini +6

Strain engineering in Sn-rich group IV semiconductors is a key enabling factor to exploit the direct band gap at mid-infrared wavelengths. Here, we investigate the effect of strain…

physics.app-ph2021

Recrystallization and Interdiffusion Processes in Laser-Annealed Strain-Relaxed Metastable GeSn0

Salim Abdi, Simone Assali, Mahmoud R. M. Atalla +3

The prospect of GeSn semiconductors for silicon-integrated infrared optoelectronics brings new challenges related to the metastability of this class of materials. As a matter of fa…

physics.app-ph2020

Mid-infrared emission and absorption in strained and relaxed direct bandgap GeSn semiconductors

Simone Assali, Alain Dijkstra, Anis Attiaoui +3

By independently engineering strain and composition, this work demonstrates and investigates direct band gap emission in the mid-infrared range from GeSn layers grown on silicon. W…