Professor Amalia Patane's Outputs (11)

Enhanced Optical Emission from 2D InSe Bent onto Si‐Pillars (2020)
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Mazumder, D., Xie, J., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Wang, X., Makarovsky, O., Bhuiyan, M. A., Kim, H., Chang, T., Huffaker, D. L., Kovalyuk, Z. D., Zhang, L., & Patanè, A. (2020). Enhanced Optical Emission from 2D InSe Bent onto Si‐Pillars. Advanced Optical Materials, 8(18), Article 2000828. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202000828

Controlling the propagation and intensity of an optical signal is central to several technologies ranging from quantum communication to signal processing. These require a versatile class of functional materials with tailored electronic and optical pr... Read More about Enhanced Optical Emission from 2D InSe Bent onto Si‐Pillars.

New Polymorphs of 2D Indium Selenide with Enhanced Electronic Properties (2020)
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Sun, Y., Li, Y., Li, T., Biswas, K., Patanè, A., & Zhang, L. (2020). New Polymorphs of 2D Indium Selenide with Enhanced Electronic Properties. Advanced Functional Materials, 30(31), Article 2001920. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202001920

The two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor indium selenide (InSe) has attracted significant interest due its unique electronic band structure, high electron mobility and wide tunability of its band gap energy achieved by varying the layer thickness. All... Read More about New Polymorphs of 2D Indium Selenide with Enhanced Electronic Properties.

The Interaction of Hydrogen with the van der Waals Crystal γ-InSe (2020)
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Felton, J., Blundo, E., Ling, S., Glover, J., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Makarovsky, O., Kovalyuk, Z. D., Besley, E., Walker, G., Polimeni, A., & Patané, A. (2020). The Interaction of Hydrogen with the van der Waals Crystal γ-InSe. Molecules, 25(11), Article 2526. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules25112526

The emergence of the hydrogen economy requires development in the storage, generation and sensing of hydrogen. The indium selenide (γ-InSe) van der Waals (vdW) crystal shows promise for technologies in all three of these areas. For these applications... Read More about The Interaction of Hydrogen with the van der Waals Crystal γ-InSe.

Imaging shape and strain in nanoscale engineered semiconductors for photonics by coherent x-ray diffraction (2020)
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Berenguer, F., Pettinari, G., Felici, M., Balakrishnan, N., Clark, J. N., Ravy, S., Patané, A., Polimeni, A., & Ciatto, G. (2020). Imaging shape and strain in nanoscale engineered semiconductors for photonics by coherent x-ray diffraction. Communications Materials, 1, Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-020-0021-6

Coherent x-ray diffractive imaging is a nondestructive technique that extracts three-dimensional electron density and strain maps from materials with nanometer resolution. It has been utilized for materials in a range of applications, and has signifi... Read More about Imaging shape and strain in nanoscale engineered semiconductors for photonics by coherent x-ray diffraction.

Room temperature upconversion electroluminescence from a mid-infrared In(AsN) tunnelling diode (2020)
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Di Paola, D. M., Lu, Q., Repiso, E., Kesaria, M., Makarovsky, O., Krier, A., & Patanè, A. (2020). Room temperature upconversion electroluminescence from a mid-infrared In(AsN) tunnelling diode. Applied Physics Letters, 116(14), Article 142108. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0002407

Light emitting diodes (LEDs) in the mid-infrared (MIR) spectral range require material systems with tailored optical absorption and emission at wavelengths λ > 2 μm. Here, we report on MIR LEDs based on In(AsN)/(InAl)As resonant tunneling diodes (RTD... Read More about Room temperature upconversion electroluminescence from a mid-infrared In(AsN) tunnelling diode.

Room temperature upconversion electroluminescence from a mid-infrared In(AsN) tunneling diode (2020)
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Di Paola, D. M., Lu, Q., Repiso, E., Kesaria, M., Makarovsky, O., Krier, A., & Patanè, A. (2020). Room temperature upconversion electroluminescence from a mid-infrared In(AsN) tunneling diode. Applied Physics Letters, 116(14), Article 142108. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0002407

Light emitting diodes (LEDs) in the mid-infrared (MIR) spectral range require material systems with tailored optical absorption and emission at wavelengths λ > 2 μm. Here, we report on MIR LEDs based on In(AsN)/(InAl)As resonant tunneling diodes (RTD... Read More about Room temperature upconversion electroluminescence from a mid-infrared In(AsN) tunneling diode.

Photoluminescence dynamics in few-layer InSe (2020)
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Venanzi, T., Arora, H., Winnerl, S., Pashkin, A., Chava, P., Patane, A., Kovalyuk, Z. D., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Erbe, A., Helm, M., & Schneider, H. (2020). Photoluminescence dynamics in few-layer InSe. Physical Review Materials, 4(4), Article 044001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.4.044001

We study the optical properties of thin flakes of InSe encapsulated in hBN. More specifically, we investigate the photoluminescence (PL) emission and its dependence on sample thickness and temperature. Through the analysis of the PL lineshape, we dis... Read More about Photoluminescence dynamics in few-layer InSe.

Design of van der Waals interfaces for broad-spectrum optoelectronics (2020)
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Ubrig, N., Ponomarev, E., Zultak, J., Domaretskiy, D., Zólyomi, V., Terry, D., Howarth, J., Gutiérrez-Lezama, I., Zhukov, A., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Kovalyuk, Z. D., Patanè, A., Taniguchi, T., Watanabe, K., Gorbachev, R. V., Fal'ko, V. I., & Morpurgo, A. F. (2020). Design of van der Waals interfaces for broad-spectrum optoelectronics. Nature Materials, 19, 299-304. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0601-3

Van der Waals (vdW) interfaces based on 2D materials are promising for optoelectronics, as interlayer transitions between different compounds allow tailoring of the spectral response over a broad range. However, issues such as lattice mismatch or a s... Read More about Design of van der Waals interfaces for broad-spectrum optoelectronics.

Production and processing of graphene and related materials (2020)
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Backes, C., Abdelkader, A. M., Alonso, C., Andrieux-Ledier, A., Arenal, R., Azpeitia, J., Balakrishnan, N., Banszerus, L., Barjon, J., Bartali, R., Bellani, S., Berger, C., Berger, R., Ortega, M. M. B., Bernard, C., Beton, P. H., Beyer, A., Bianco, A., Bøggild, P., Bonaccorso, F., …Garcia-Hernandez, M. (2020). Production and processing of graphene and related materials. 2D Materials, 7(2), Article 022001. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ab1e0a

Resonant tunnelling into the two-dimensional subbands of InSe layers (2020)
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Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Kerfoot, J., Mazumder, D., Greenaway, M. T., Vdovin, E. E., Makarovsky, O., Kovalyuk, Z. D., Eaves, L., Beton, P. H., & Patanè, A. (2020). Resonant tunnelling into the two-dimensional subbands of InSe layers. Communications Physics, 3, Article 16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-020-0290-x

Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) crystals have attracted considerable interest for digital electronics beyond Si-based complementary metal oxide semiconductor technologies. Despite the transformative success of Si-based devices, there are lim... Read More about Resonant tunnelling into the two-dimensional subbands of InSe layers.

Van der Waals SnSe2(1-x)S2x alloys: composition-dependent bowing coefficient and electron-phonon interaction (2020)
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Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Wang, X., Sutcliffe, J., Bhuiyan, M. A., Fu, Y., Yang, Z., Makarovsky, O., Eaves, L., Solomon, A., Maslyuk, V. T., Kovalyuk, Z. D., Zhang, L., & Patanè, A. (2020). Van der Waals SnSe2(1-x)S2x alloys: composition-dependent bowing coefficient and electron-phonon interaction. Advanced Functional Materials, 30(9), Article 1908092. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201908092

The design of advanced functional materials with customized properties often requires the use of an alloy. This approach has been used for decades, but only recently to create van der Waals (vdW) alloys for applications in electronics, optoelectronic... Read More about Van der Waals SnSe2(1-x)S2x alloys: composition-dependent bowing coefficient and electron-phonon interaction.