Monolithic growth of partly cured polydimethylsiloxane thin film layers

Monolithic integration of thin-film coolers with optoelectronic devices

Patrick Abraham John E. Bowers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California–Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California 93106-9560 Abstract. Active refrigeration of optoelectronic components through the use of monolithically grown thin-film solid-state coolers based on III-V materials is proposed and investigated. Enhanced cooling power compared to the thermoelectric e...

Thin-Film Quantum Dot Photodiode for Monolithic Infrared Image Sensors †

Imaging in the infrared wavelength range has been fundamental in scientific, military and surveillance applications. Currently, it is a crucial enabler of new industries such as autonomous mobility (for obstacle detection), augmented reality (for eye tracking) and biometrics. Ubiquitous deployment of infrared cameras (on a scale similar to visible cameras) is however prevented by high manufactu...

Fluctuations and Thin Film Growth

Two-dimensional mound coarsening is studied using a continuum model in which the effects of deposition noise have been included but in which coalescence due to mass transfer is assumed to be negligible as expected at low temperature. In agreement with scaling arguments for the case of fluctuation-dominated mound coarsening, we find n = β = 1/3, where n is the mound coarsening exponent and β is ...

Charge blocking layers in thin-film/amorphous photovoltaics

LiNbO3 thin film growth on (0001)-GaN

LiNbO3 thin films were grown by rf magnetron sputtering on (0001)-GaN templates and AlGaN/GaN structures. The films were characterized by four-circle x-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy (AFM), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). No second phases, such as a Li-excess or Li-deficient phase, were detected by u-2u scans and the films were highly (0001) textured. LiNbO3 h202̄4j w-scans...