DAGHER , Roy

Graphene is a two-dimensional material belonging to the family of carbon allotropes, consisting of a stable single atomic layer owing to strong in-plane chemical bonds between carbon atoms. It can be identified as a gapless semiconductor with a linear energy dispersion near the Dirac points, which facilitates ballistic carrier transport. In...

AlN thin films, grown on (0001) sapphire substrates by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), were annealed at high temperature (up to 1650 °C) in flowing N2. X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies, combined with Williamson-Hall and Srikant plots, have shown that annealing leads to a strong reduction of both edge and mixed threading dislocation densities, as...

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Abstract By combining non-contact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM) and Kelvin probe microscopy (KPFM) in ultra high vacuum environment (UHV), we directly measure the height and work function of graphene monolayer on the Si-face of 6H-SiC(0001) with a precision that allows us to differentiate three different types of graphene structures : zero...

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) with hydrogen is an interesting technique to grow graphene on silicon carbide (SiC) with excellent electronic properties. However, unanswered questions remain concerning whether the growth mechanism is similar or different to the graphene growth by silicon (Si) sublimation from SiC. In this paper, we emphasize...

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Nanopendeo-epitaxy of gallium nitride (GaN) is considered in this study as a way of producing freestanding GaN with reduced strain and threading dislocation density (TDD) for optoelectronic applications. The novelty of this work lies in the use of silicon on insulator (SOI) substrates patterned into nano-pillars down to the buried oxide (BOX)....