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Performance evaluation of a new 30 ?m thick GaAs X-ray detector grown by MBE (2021)
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Lioliou, G., Poyser, C. L., Whale, J., Campion, R. P., Kent, A. J., & Barnett, A. (2021). Performance evaluation of a new 30 ?m thick GaAs X-ray detector grown by MBE. Materials Research Express, 8(2), Article 025909. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1591/abe73c

A circular mesa (400 μm diameter) GaAs p+-i-n+ photodiode with a 30 μm thick i layer was characterized for its performance as a detector in photon counting x-ray spectroscopy at 20 °C. The detector was fabricated from material grown by molecular beam... Read More about Performance evaluation of a new 30 ?m thick GaAs X-ray detector grown by MBE.

High-speed modulation of a terahertz quantum cascade laser by coherent acoustic phonon pulses (2020)
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Dunn, A., Poyser, C., Dean, P., Demić, A., Valavanis, A., Indjin, D., …Kent, A. (2020). High-speed modulation of a terahertz quantum cascade laser by coherent acoustic phonon pulses. Nature Communications, 11, Article 835. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14662-w

The fast modulation of lasers is a fundamental requirement for applications in optical communications, high-resolution spectroscopy and metrology. In the terahertz-frequency range, the quantum-cascade laser (QCL) is a high-power source with the poten... Read More about High-speed modulation of a terahertz quantum cascade laser by coherent acoustic phonon pulses.

30 μm thick GaAs X-ray p + -i-n + photodiode grown by MBE (2019)
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Lioliou, G., Poyser, C., Butera, S., Campion, R., Kent, A., & Barnett, A. (2019). 30 μm thick GaAs X-ray p + -i-n + photodiode grown by MBE. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 946, Article 162670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.162670

7 8 A GaAs p +-in + photodiode detector with a 30 μm thick i layer and a 400 μm diameter was processed using 9 standard wet chemical etching from material grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The detector was 10 characterized for its electrical and photo... Read More about 30 μm thick GaAs X-ray p + -i-n + photodiode grown by MBE.

A high electron mobility phonotransistor (2018)
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Poyser, C. L., Li, L. H., Campion, R. P., Akimov, A. V., Linfield, E. H., Davies, A. G., …Kent, A. J. (2018). A high electron mobility phonotransistor. Communications Physics, 1, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-018-0059-7

Acoustoelectric devices convert acoustic energy to electrical energy and vice versa. Devices working at much higher acoustic frequencies than those currently available have potential scientific and technological applications, e.g.: as detectors in ph... Read More about A high electron mobility phonotransistor.

Phonon spectroscopy with chirped shear and compressive acoustic pulses (2017)
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Poyser, C. L., York, W., Srikanthreddy, D., Glavin, B., Linnik, T., Campion, R., …Kent, A. (in press). Phonon spectroscopy with chirped shear and compressive acoustic pulses. Physical Review Letters, 119, Article 255502. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.255502

Picosecond duration compressive and shear phonon wave packets injected into (311) GaAs slabs transform after propagation through ?1??mm into chirped acoustic pulses with a frequency increasing in time due to phonon dispersion. By probing the temporal... Read More about Phonon spectroscopy with chirped shear and compressive acoustic pulses.

Piezoelectric response to coherent longitudinal and transverse acoustic phonons in a semiconductor Schottky diode (2017)
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Srikanthreddy, D., Glavin, B., Poyser, C. L., Henini, M., Lehmann, D., Jasiukiewicz, C., …Kent, A. (in press). Piezoelectric response to coherent longitudinal and transverse acoustic phonons in a semiconductor Schottky diode. Physical Review Applied, 7(2), Article 024014. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.7.024014

We study the generation of microwave electronic signals by pumping a (311) GaAs Schottky diode with compressive and shear acoustic phonons, generated by femtosecond optical excitation of an Al _lm transducer and mode conversion at the Al-GaAs interfa... Read More about Piezoelectric response to coherent longitudinal and transverse acoustic phonons in a semiconductor Schottky diode.

Coherent phonon optics in a chip with an electrically controlled active device (2015)
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Akimov, A., Poyser, C. L., Kent, A. J., & CAMPION, R. (2015). Coherent phonon optics in a chip with an electrically controlled active device. Scientific Reports, 5, https://doi.org/10.1038/srep08279

Phonon optics concerns operations with high-frequency acoustic waves in solid media in a similar way to how traditional optics operates with the light beams (i.e. photons). Phonon optics experiments with coherent terahertz and sub-terahertz phonons p... Read More about Coherent phonon optics in a chip with an electrically controlled active device.