Semiconducting graphene nanoribbons are promising candidates for succeeding and/or complementing silicon (Si) in logic microprocessors and Group III-V compounds in radio frequency devices and for inte...
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Group III-nitride semiconductors are characterized by the ability to cover a wide emission wavelength range from the deep ultraviolet (UV) to the near infrared (NIR) (i.e., from 6.2 eV to 0.7 eV). InG...
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Compound III-V semiconductors are foundational materials employed for state-of- the-art optoelectronic devices. Planar ultra-thin heterostructure materials, called quantum wells (QWs), are currently t...
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Optical metasurfaces enable unprecedented control over electromagnetic wave manipulation. By leveraging powerful resonance mechanisms supported by subwavelength structures arranged in two-dimensional ...
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Attempts have been made to develop SAM-on-sapphire substrates that include a thin film of SAM on an underlying bulk sapphire support for InGaN growth. However, the SAM films grown by the published met...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed systems and methods for the optical control of qubits and other quantum particles with a combination of spatial light modulators (SLM) and fast deflectors for qua...
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Zinc oxide graphene composite materials have significant interest commercially as they have been demonstrated effective for use in sensors and capacitors. They can act as transparent conductive thin-f...
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Typically, bidirectional switching elements are fabricated using two FET devices, for example, arranged in series with opposite polarities, each device shunted by a diode to steer current to the prope...
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III-nitride materials, such as AlN, GaN, InN, and their solid solutions, possess properties that are simply not accessible in any other semiconductors. However, there are unique processing challenges ...
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The feasibility of THz technologies, including high-speed communication, has been curtailed by the problem of high path loss. Theoretically, this hurdle could be overcome if THz receivers were suffici...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed new methods of forming films of aligned elongated nanoparticles. These films may include carbon nanotubes and could find use in electronic devices, such as trans...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a group III-nitride-based light emitting devices for efficient LED and laser applications. These devices have one or more quantum wells in the active region with ...
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Semiconductor deep-ultraviolet (DUV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) operating at sub-250 nm wavelengths are of interest due to their applications in areas such as sterilization, biosensing, medical trea...
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UW-Madison researchers have designed optoelectronic transducers that convert a femtosecond (fs)-timescale laser pulse into an a.c. electrical current pulse with an extremely high frequency and a high ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a compact thermal laser on a chip capable of steering emitted thermal radiation at a continuous range of angles through the application of a voltage. The device i...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a triblock copolymer strategy for controlling the spacing between CNTs. The triblock copolymers consist of an A-B-A architecture where the B block is the conjugat...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a new synthesis method, hybrid PLD (Pulsed Laser Deposition), that synergistically combines the advantages of thermal evaporation and conventional PLD to overcome...
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UW-Madison and University of Chicago researchers have developed a method for directed self-assembly of block copolymer films that relies on obtaining the correct balance of surface energies for the te...
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Oxide thin films have widespread applications in electronic, magnetic, optical materials and devices. Synthesis of oxide thin films via epitaxial growth techniques such as sputtering, molecular beam e...
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Silicon-Germanium (SiGe) heterostructures are used for many purposes in the modern electronics industry, forming the basis of devices such as SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistors and Si/SiGe modula...
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UW researchers have invented a Cesium Lattice Optical Clock (CLOC) for high performance and simple operation in a compact form factor. The novel design uses a “forbidden” optical transitio...
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UW Madison researchers have developed methods for forming films of aligned carbon nanotubes. The methods also provide for making electronic devices that incorporate the films as active layers. The fil...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a fundamentally new type of mmW emitter, which only shows moderate power drop even at the 300 GHz frequency. The device architecture is a multilayer stack of meta...
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UW researchers have now demonstrated that nanotubes collected at a liquid/liquid interface self-organize to form two-dimensional (2D) nematic liquid crystals that globally align with flow. The 2D liqu...
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A method of forming a low dielectric constant (low-k) dielectric is disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate and forming a dielectric including porogens over the substrate. While subjectin...
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