A. C. H. Rowe
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View article: Nanoscale imaging of reduced forward bias at V-pits in green-emitting nitride LEDs
Nanoscale imaging of reduced forward bias at V-pits in green-emitting nitride LEDs Open
Record wall-plug efficiencies in long-wavelength, nitride light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have recently been achieved in devices containing high V-pit densities. Numerical modeling suggests this may be due to improved electrical efficiencies …
View article: Deep-Level Structure of the Spin-Active Recombination Center in Dilute Nitrides
Deep-Level Structure of the Spin-Active Recombination Center in Dilute Nitrides Open
A gallium interstitial defect is thought to be responsible for the spectacular spin-dependent recombination in GaAs_{1-x}N_{x} dilute nitrides. Current understanding associates this defect with at least two in-gap levels corresponding to t…
View article: High Strain Engineering of a Suspended WSSe Monolayer Membrane by Indentation and Measured by Tip‐Enhanced Photoluminescence
High Strain Engineering of a Suspended WSSe Monolayer Membrane by Indentation and Measured by Tip‐Enhanced Photoluminescence Open
Straintronics involves the manipulation and regulation of the electronic characteristics of 2D materials through the use of macro‐ and nano‐scale strain engineering. In this study, an atomic force microscope (AFM) coupled with an optical s…
View article: High Strain Engineering of a Suspended WSSe Monolayer Membrane by Indentation and Measured by Tip-enhanced Photoluminescence
High Strain Engineering of a Suspended WSSe Monolayer Membrane by Indentation and Measured by Tip-enhanced Photoluminescence Open
Straintronics involves the manipulation and regulation of the electronic characteristics of 2D materials through the use of macro- and nano-scale strain engineering. In this study, we utilized an atomic force microscope (AFM) coupled with …
View article: Spin precession of light holes in the spin-orbit field of strained GaAs nanowires
Spin precession of light holes in the spin-orbit field of strained GaAs nanowires Open
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View article: Deep-level structure of the spin-active recombination center in dilute nitrides
Deep-level structure of the spin-active recombination center in dilute nitrides Open
A Gallium interstitial defect (Ga$_{\textrm{i}}$) is thought to be responsible for the spectacular spin-dependent recombination (SDR) in GaAs$_{1-x}$N$_x$ dilute nitride semiconductors. Current understanding associates this defect with two…
View article: Nanoscale Mapping of Sub‐Gap Electroluminescence from Step‐Bunched, Oxidized 4H‐SiC Surfaces
Nanoscale Mapping of Sub‐Gap Electroluminescence from Step‐Bunched, Oxidized 4H‐SiC Surfaces Open
13 pages, 5 figures; work presented at the International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Sydney, 2022
View article: A Systematic Study of Spin‐Dependent Recombination in GaAs<sub>1−<i>x</i></sub>N<sub><i>x</i></sub> as a Function of Nitrogen Content
A Systematic Study of Spin‐Dependent Recombination in GaAs<sub>1−<i>x</i></sub>N<sub><i>x</i></sub> as a Function of Nitrogen Content Open
A systematic study of spin‐dependent recombination (SDR) under steady‐state optical pumping conditions as a function of nitrogen content, x , in dilute nitride alloys of the form GaAs 1− x N x is reported. Use of high‐excitation power dens…
View article: Probing Local Emission Properties in InGaN/GaN Quantum Wells by Scanning Tunneling Luminescence Microscopy
Probing Local Emission Properties in InGaN/GaN Quantum Wells by Scanning Tunneling Luminescence Microscopy Open
Scanning tunneling electroluminescence (STL) microscopy is performed on a 3 nm‐thick InGaN/GaN quantum well (QW) with [In] = 0.23 such that the main light emission occurs in the green. The technique is used to map the radiative recombinati…
View article: Nanoscale mapping of sub-gap electroluminescence from step-bunched,\n oxidized 4H-SiC surfaces
Nanoscale mapping of sub-gap electroluminescence from step-bunched,\n oxidized 4H-SiC surfaces Open
Scanning tunneling luminescence microscopy (STLM) along with scanning\ntunneling spectroscopy (STS) is applied to a step-bunched, oxidized 4H-SiC\nsurface prepared on the silicon face of a commercial, n-type SiC wafer using a\nsilicon melt…
View article: Probing local emission properties in InGaN/GaN quantum wells by scanning tunneling luminescence microscopy
Probing local emission properties in InGaN/GaN quantum wells by scanning tunneling luminescence microscopy Open
Scanning tunneling electroluminescence microscopy is performed on a 3-nm-thick InGaN/GaN quantum well with x = 0.23 such that the main light emission occurs in the green. The technique is used to map the local recombination properties at a…
View article: Anomalous ambipolar transport in depleted GaAs nanowires
Anomalous ambipolar transport in depleted GaAs nanowires Open
We have used a polarized microluminescence technique to investigate\nphotocarrier charge and spin transport in n-type depleted GaAs nanowires ($\n\\approx 10^{17}$ cm$^{-3}$ doping level). At 6K, a long-distance tail appears\nin the lumine…
View article: Spin/valley pumping of resident electrons in WSe<sub>2</sub> and WS<sub>2</sub> monolayers.
Spin/valley pumping of resident electrons in WSe<sub>2</sub> and WS<sub>2</sub> monolayers. Open
Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides are ideal materials to control both spin and valley degrees of freedom either electrically or optically. Nevertheless, optical excitation mostly generates excitons species with inherently shor…
View article: Spin/valley pumping of resident electrons in WSe2 and WS2 monolayers
Spin/valley pumping of resident electrons in WSe2 and WS2 monolayers Open
View article: Imaging Seebeck drift of excitons and trions in MoSe2 monolayers
Imaging Seebeck drift of excitons and trions in MoSe2 monolayers Open
Hyperspectral imaging at cryogenic temperatures is used to investigate exciton and trion propagation in MoSe$_2$ monolayers encapsulated with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Under a tightly focused, continuous-wave laser excitation, the spa…
View article: Anomalous, space-charge-limited piezoresistance in defect-engineered silicon
Anomalous, space-charge-limited piezoresistance in defect-engineered silicon Open
The space-charge-limited, steady-state piezoresistance (PZR) in thin device layers of silicon-on-insulator wafers containing a nominal $10^{14}$ cm$^{-3}$ silicon divacancy defects changes sign as a function of applied bias. Above a punch-…
View article: Le <i>spin</i> des électrons se transporte-t-il comme leur charge ?
Le <i>spin</i> des électrons se transporte-t-il comme leur charge ? Open
Pour répondre aux besoins croissants de la microélectronique, il a été proposé de transmettre l’information par le spin de l’électron, cette variable quantique dont l’analogue classique est la rotation sur lui-même. Il serait naturel de pe…
View article: Giant, Anomalous Piezoimpedance in Silicon-on-insulator
Giant, Anomalous Piezoimpedance in Silicon-on-insulator Open
A giant, anomalous piezo-response of fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) devices under mechanical stress is demonstrated using impedance spectroscopy. This piezo-response strongly depends on the measurement frequency, $ω$, and con…
View article: Mechanical stress dependence of the Fermi level pinning on an oxidized silicon surface
Mechanical stress dependence of the Fermi level pinning on an oxidized silicon surface Open
View article: Exciton diffusion in WSe2 monolayers embedded in a van der Waals heterostructure
Exciton diffusion in WSe2 monolayers embedded in a van der Waals heterostructure Open
We have combined spatially resolved steady-state micro-photoluminescence with time-resolved photoluminescence to investigate the exciton diffusion in a WSe2 monolayer encapsulated with hexagonal boron nitride. At 300 K, we extract an excit…
View article: Ambipolar spin diffusion in p-type GaAs: A case where spin diffuses more than charge
Ambipolar spin diffusion in p-type GaAs: A case where spin diffuses more than charge Open
We investigate the diffusion of charge and spin at 15 K in p-type GaAs, combining transient-grating and energy-resolved microluminescence measurements to cover a broad range of photoelectron density. At very low optical power, in a unipola…
View article: Polarizers, optical bridges, and Sagnac interferometers for nanoradian polarization rotation measurements
Polarizers, optical bridges, and Sagnac interferometers for nanoradian polarization rotation measurements Open
The ability to measure nanoradian polarization rotations, θF, in the photon shot noise limit is investigated for partially crossed polarizers (PCP), a static Sagnac interferometer, and an optical bridge, each of which can in principle be u…
View article: Spin and recombination dynamics of excitons and free electrons in p-type GaAs: Effect of carrier density
Spin and recombination dynamics of excitons and free electrons in p-type GaAs: Effect of carrier density Open
Carrier and spin recombination are investigated in p-type GaAs of acceptor concentration NA = 1.5 × 1017 cm−3 using time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy at 15 K. At low photocarrier concentration, acceptors are mostly neutral and p…
View article: Luminescence imaging of photoelectron spin precession during drift in a p-type GaAs microfabricated Hall bar
Luminescence imaging of photoelectron spin precession during drift in a p-type GaAs microfabricated Hall bar Open
Using a microfabricated p-type GaAs Hall bar, it is shown that the combined application of co-planar electric and magnetic fields enables the observation of spatial oscillations of the photoluminescence circular polarization due to the pre…
View article: Geometric and surface chemical origin of the piezoresistance in silicon nanowires
Geometric and surface chemical origin of the piezoresistance in silicon nanowires Open
A wide variety of apparently contradictory piezoresistance (PZR) behaviors have been reported in p-type silicon nanowires, from the usual positive bulk effect to anomalous (negative) PZR and giant PZR two orders of magnitude larger than th…
View article: Absence of carrier separation in ambipolar charge and spin drift in p+-GaAs
Absence of carrier separation in ambipolar charge and spin drift in p+-GaAs Open
The electric field-induced modifications of the spatial distribution of photoelectrons, photoholes, and electronic spins in optically pumped p+ GaAs are investigated using a polarized luminescence imaging microscopy. At low pump intensity,…
View article: Ambipolar spin-spin coupling in<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msup><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:math>-GaAs
Ambipolar spin-spin coupling in-GaAs Open
A novel spin-spin coupling mechanism that occurs during the transport of\nspin-polarized minority electrons in semiconductors is described. Unlike the\nCoulomb spin drag, this coupling arises from the ambipolar electric field which\nis cre…
View article: Effect of the Pauli principle on photoelectron spin transport in<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msup><mml:mi>p</mml:mi><mml:mo>+</mml:mo></mml:msup></mml:math>GaAs
Effect of the Pauli principle on photoelectron spin transport inGaAs Open
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View article: Central role of electronic temperature for photoelectron charge and spin mobilities in p+-GaAs
Central role of electronic temperature for photoelectron charge and spin mobilities in p+-GaAs Open
The charge and spin mobilities of minority photoelectrons in p+-GaAs are determined by monitoring the effect of an electric field on the spatial profiles of the luminescence and of its polarization. By using electric fields to increase the…
View article: Anomalous temperature dependence of photoelectron charge and spin mobilities in p+-GaAs
Anomalous temperature dependence of photoelectron charge and spin mobilities in p+-GaAs Open
The effect of an electric field on the spatial charge and spin profiles of photoelectrons in p+-GaAs is studied as a function of lattice and electron temperature. The charge and spin mobilities of photoelectrons are equal in all conditions…