Search Results - "Bergamaschini, Roberto"
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Faceting of Si and Ge crystals grown on deeply patterned Si substrates in the kinetic regime: phase-field modelling and experiments
Published in Scientific reports (22-09-2021)“…The development of three-dimensional architectures in semiconductor technology is paving the way to new device concepts for various applications, from quantum…”
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Scaling Hetero-Epitaxy from Layers to Three-Dimensional Crystals
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (16-03-2012)“…Quantum structures made from epitaxial semiconductor layers have revolutionized our understanding of low-dimensional systems and are used for ultrafast…”
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Semiconductor Heteroepitaxy
Published in Crystals (Basel) (01-03-2021)“…The quest for high-performance and scalable devices required for next-generation semiconductor applications inevitably passes through the fabrication of…”
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Morphological evolution of Ge/Si nano-strips driven by Rayleigh-like instability
Published in Applied physics letters (08-01-2018)“…We present the morphological evolution obtained during the annealing of Ge strips grown on Si ridges as a prototypical process for 3D device architectures and…”
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Optically reconfigurable polarized emission in Germanium
Published in Scientific reports (24-07-2018)“…Light polarization can conveniently encode information. Yet, the ability to tailor polarized optical fields is notably demanding but crucial to develop…”
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Extreme time extrapolation capabilities and thermodynamic consistency of physics-inspired neural networks for the 3D microstructure evolution of materials via Cahn–Hilliard flow
Published in Machine learning: science and technology (01-12-2024)“…Abstract A Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network (CRNN) is trained to reproduce the evolution of the spinodal decomposition process in three dimensions as…”
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Accelerating simulations of strained-film growth by deep learning: Finite element method accuracy over long time scales
Published in APL machine learning (01-09-2024)“…A convolutional neural network is trained on a large dataset of suitably randomized film profiles and corresponding elastic energy densities ρɛ, computed by…”
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Growth and Coalescence of 3C-SiC on Si(111) Micro-Pillars by a Phase-Field Approach
Published in Materials (01-10-2019)“…3C-SiC is a promising material for low-voltage power electronic devices but its growth is still challenging. Heteroepitaxy of 3C-SiC on Si micrometer-sized…”
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Dislocation-Free SiGe/Si Heterostructures
Published in Crystals (Basel) (19-06-2018)“…Ge vertical heterostructures grown on deeply-patterned Si(001) were first obtained in 2012 (C.V. Falub et al., Science2012, 335, 1330–1334), immediately…”
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Selective Area Epitaxy of GaAs/Ge/Si Nanomembranes: A Morphological Study
Published in Crystals (Basel) (01-02-2020)“…We demonstrate the feasibility of growing GaAs nanomembranes on a plastically-relaxed Ge layer deposited on Si (111) by exploiting selective area epitaxy in…”
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Reentrant Behavior of the Density vs. Temperature of Indium Islands on GaAs(111)A
Published in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) (31-07-2020)“…We show that the density of indium islands on GaAs(111)A substrates have a non-monotonic, reentrant behavior as a function of the indium deposition…”
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Faceting of Equilibrium and Metastable Nanostructures: A Phase-Field Model of Surface Diffusion Tackling Realistic Shapes
Published in Crystal growth & design (03-06-2015)“…Several crystalline structures are metastable or kinetically frozen out-of-equilibrium states in the phase space. When the corresponding lifetime is…”
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Sunburst pattern by kinetic segregation in core-shell nanowires: A phase-field study
Published in Applied surface science (01-07-2020)“…[Display omitted] •Morphology and composition changes during crystal growth set by a phase-field model.•Sunburst segregation in core/shell nanowires is…”
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In‐Plane Nanowire Growth of Topological Crystalline Insulator Pb 1 − x Sn x Te
Published in Advanced functional materials (01-12-2023)“…Abstract Predicted topological crystalline insulators such as Pb 1 − x Sn x Te are an interesting candidate for applications in quantum technology, as they can…”
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Competition Between Kinetics and Thermodynamics During the Growth of Faceted Crystal by Phase Field Modeling
Published in physica status solidi (b) (01-07-2019)“…The faceting of a growing crystal is theoretically investigated by a continuum model including the incorporation kinetics of adatoms. This allows us for…”
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In‐Plane Nanowire Growth of Topological Crystalline Insulator Pb1 − xSnxTe
Published in Advanced functional materials (08-12-2023)“…Predicted topological crystalline insulators such as Pb1 − xSnxTe are an interesting candidate for applications in quantum technology, as they can host…”
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Phase-field simulations of faceted Ge/Si-crystal arrays, merging into a suspended film
Published in Applied surface science (01-01-2017)“…[Display omitted] •A versatile phase-field model of surface diffusion is used to simulate the evolution of 3D_ geometries.•The anisotropic surface energy of Ge…”
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Motion of crystalline inclusions by interface diffusion in the proximity of free surfaces
Published in Journal of nanoparticle research : an interdisciplinary forum for nanoscale science and technology (01-12-2019)“…Triggered by experimental observations of nanometer-sized Ni precipitate motion in a La 2 O 3 matrix, the migration and morphological evolution by interface…”
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Kinetic Control of Morphology and Composition in Ge/GeSn Core/Shell Nanowires
Published in ACS nano (25-02-2020)“…The growth of Sn-rich group-IV semiconductors at the nanoscale can enrich the understanding of the fundamental properties of metastable GeSn alloys. Here, we…”
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The interplay of morphological and compositional evolution in crystal growth: a phase-field model
Published in Philosophical magazine (Abingdon, England) (03-07-2014)“…We present a closed and consistent model for growth phenomena of binary systems. Starting with the free energy of mixtures, a mean-field description of the…”
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