Tuğrul Senger

• Professor
• Faculty Member at Izmir Institute of Technology

Excitons are often given negative connotation in solar energy harvesting in part due to their presumed short diffusion lengths. We investigate exciton transport in single-crystal methylammonium lead tribromide (MAPbBr3) microribbons via spectrally, spatially, and temporally resolved photocurrent and photoluminescence measurements. Distinct peaks in...

Excitons have fundamental impacts on optoelectronic properties of semiconductors. Halide perovskites, with long carrier lifetimes and ionic crystal structures, may support highly mobile excitons because the dipolar nature of excitons suppresses phonon scattering. Inspired by recent experimental progress, we perform device modeling to rigorously ana...

In this work, ab initio calculations based on density functional theory and the Landauer formalism are carried out to investigate ballistic thermoelectric properties of T−HfSe2 nanoribbons (NRs). The zigzag-edged NRs are metallic, and they are not included in this study. The armchair NRs possess two types of edge symmetries depending on the number...

We investigate temperature dependent photogenerated carrier diffusion in single-crystal methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) microstuctures via scanning photocurrent microscopy. Carrier diffusion lengths were found to increase abruptly across the tetragonal to the orthorhombic phase transition and reached 200 ± 50 μm at 80 K. In combination with the...

Ab initio calculations in the framework of many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) are performed to calculate the electronic and optical properties of monolayer and bilayer blue phosphorene with different stacking configurations. It is found that the stacking configuration of bilayer blue phosphorene strongly affects the electronic band gap of the mat...

Combining first-principles calculations with Landauer-Büttiker formalism, ballistic thermoelectric transport properties of semiconducting two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and oxides (TMOs) (namely MX2 with M = Cr, Mo, W, Ti, Zr, Hf; X = O, S, Se, Te) are investigated in their 2H and 1T phases. Having computed structural, as w...

We experimentally and theoretically study how the structural and vibrational properties of zinc oxide (ZnO) are modified upon Gallium (Ga) doping. The characteristics of Ga-doped ZnO thin films which are synthesized by sol-gel spin coating method on glass substrates are monitored by using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Raman scattering measurements. F...

Herein, we carried out first-principles calculations based on density functional theory to investigate the effects of surface functionalization with hydrogen atoms on structural, dynamical and electronic properties of Cu2Si monolayer. Pristine Cu2Si, a metallic monolayer, has a planar hexacoordinate structure. Calculations revealed that the most fa...

We set up an evolutionary algorithm combined with density functional tight-binding (DFTB) calculations to investigate hydrogen adsorption on flat graphene and graphene monolayers curved over substrate steps. During the evolution, candidates for the new generations are created by adsorption of an additional hydrogen atom to the stable configurations...

We set up an evolutionary algorithm combined with density functional tight-binding (DFTB) calculations to investigate hydrogen adsorption on flat graphene and graphene monolayers curved over substrate steps. During the evolution, candidates for the new generations are created by adsorption of an additional hydrogen atom to the stable configurations...

By performing density functional theory-based ab initio calculations, Raman-active phonon modes of single-layer two-dimensional (2D) materials and the effect of in-plane biaxial strain on the peak frequencies and corresponding activities of the Raman-active modes are calculated. Our findings confirm the Raman spectrum of the unstrained 2D crystals...

By performing density functional theory-based ab-initio calculations, Raman active phonon modes of novel single-layer two-dimensional (2D) materials and the effect of in-plane biaxial strain on the peak frequencies and corresponding activities of the Raman active modes are calculated. Our findings confirm the Raman spectrum of the unstrained 2D cry...

Employing density functional theory-based methods, the structural, vibrational, electronic, and magnetic properties of monolayer α-RuCl3 were investigated. It was demonstrated that ferromagnetic (FM) and zigzag-antiferromagnetic (ZZ-AFM) spin orders in the material have very close total energies with the latter being the ground state. We found that...

First-principles calculations based on density-functional theory are used to investigate the effects of hydrogenation on the structural, vibrational, thermal and electronic properties of the charge density wave (CDW) phase of single-layer TiSe2 . It is found that hydrogenation of single-layer TiSe2 is possible through adsorption of a H atom on each...

Employing density functional theory based calculations, we investigate structural, vibrational and strain-dependent electronic properties of an ultra-thin CdTe crystal structure that can be derived from its bulk counterpart. It is found that this ultra-thin crystal has an 8-atom primitive unit cell with considerable surface reconstructions. Dynamic...

CdTe is a well known and widely used binary compound for optoelectronic applications. In this study, we propose the thinnest, free standing monolayer of CdTe which holds the tetragonal-PbO (α-PbO) symmetry. The structural, electronic, vibrational and strain dependent properties are investigated by means of first principles calculations based on den...

We have investigated the effect of two different self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on electrical characteristics of bilayer graphene (BLG)/n-Si Schottky diodes. Novel 4″bis(diphenylamino)-1, 1′:3″-terphenyl-5′ carboxylic acids (TPA) and 4,4-di-9H-carbazol-9-yl-1,1′:3′1′-terphenyl-5′ carboxylic acid (CAR) aromatic SAMs have been used to modify n-Si s...

By performing density functional theory-based calculations, we investigate how structural, electronic and mechanical properties of single layer ReS2 can be tuned upon hydrogenation of its surfaces. It is found that a stable, fully hydrogenated structure can be obtained by formation of strong S-H bonds. The optimized atomic structure of ReS2H2 is co...

We report experimental and theoretical investigations of nitrogen doped graphene. A low-pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) system was used to grow large-area graphene on copper foil, using ethylene as the carbon source. Nitrogen-doped graphene (N-graphene) was prepared by exposing the graphene transferred to different substrates to atomic nit...

By performing density functional theory-based calculations, we investigate the structural, electronic, and mechanical properties of the thinnest ever ZnSe crystal [Sun et al. Nat. Comm. 3, 1057 (2012)]. The vibrational spectrum analysis reveals that the monolayer ZnSe is dynamically stable and has flexible nature with its soft phonon modes. In addi...

Motivated by recent studies that reported the successful synthesis of monolayer Mg(OH)$_{2}$ [Suslu \textit{et al.}, Sci. Rep. \textbf{6}, 20525 (2016)] and hexagonal (\textit{h}-)AlN [Tsipas \textit{et al}., Appl. Phys. Lett. \textbf{103}, 251605 (2013)], we investigate structural, electronic, and optical properties of vertically stacked $h$-AlN a...

Low-dimensional Poly 3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl (P3HT) structures that serve efficient exciton dissociation in organic solar cells, play a major role in increasing the charge collection, and hence, the efficiency of organic devices. In this study, we theoretically and experimentally investigate the Dichlorobenzene (DCB)-assisted formation of P3HT na...

The mechanical properties of monolayer GaS and GaSe crystals are investigated in terms of their elastic constants: in-plane stiffness (C), Poisson ratio (ν), and ultimate strength (σU) by means of first-principles calculations. The calculated elastic constants are compared with those of graphene and monolayer MoS2. Our results indicate that monolay...

Atomically thin nanoribbons (NRs) have been at the forefront of materials science and nanoelectronics in recent years. State-of-the-art research on nanoscale materials has revealed that electronic, magnetic, phononic, and optical properties may differ dramatically when their one-dimensional forms are synthesized. The present article aims to review...

Magnesium hydroxide [Mg(OH)2] has a layered brucitelike structure in its bulk form and was recently isolated as a new member of two-dimensional monolayer materials. We investigated the electronic and optical properties of monolayer crystals of Mg(OH)2 and WS2 and their possible heterobilayer structure by means of first-principles calculations. It w...

Synthesis of 1D-polymer nanowires by a self-assembly method using marginal solvents is an attractive technique. While the formation mechanism is poorly understood, this method is essential in order to control the growth of nanowires. Here we visualized the time-dependent assembly of poly (3-hexyl-thiophene-2,5-diyl) (P3HT) nanowires by atomic force...

Using density functional theory and nonequilibrium Green's functions-based methods we investigated the electronic and transport properties of monolayer TiS₃ pn-junction. We constructed a lateral pn-junction in monolayer TiS₃ by using Li and F adatoms. An applied bias voltage causedsignificant variability in the electronic and transport properties o...

Successful isolation of graphene from graphite opened a new era for material science and con- densed matter physics. Due to this remarkable achievement, there has been an immense interest to synthesize new two dimensional materials and to investigate their novel physical properties. Silicene, form of Si atoms arranged in a buckled honeycomb geometr...

We report the controlled self-organization and switching of newly designed Schiff base (E)-4-((4-(phenylethynyl) benzylidene) amino) benzenethiol (EPBB) molecules on a Au (111) surface at room temperature. Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/STS) were used to image and analyze the conformational changes of the EPBB molecules. The co...

Magnesium hydroxide (Mg(OH)2) has a layered brucite-like structure in its bulk form and was recently isolated as a new member of 2D monolayer materials. We investigated the electronic and optical properties of monolayer crystals of Mg(OH)2 and WS2 and their possible heterobilayer structure by means of first principles calculations. It was found tha...

Employing density functional theory-based methods, we investigate monolayer and bilayer structures of hexagonal SnS$_{2}$, which is recently synthesized monolayer metal dichalcogenide. Comparison of 1H and 1T phases of monolayer SnS$_{2}$ confirms the ground state to be the 1T phase. In its bilayer structure we examine different stacking configurat...

An overview is given of recent advances in experimental and theoretical understanding of optical properties of ultra‐thin crystal structures (graphene, phosphorene, silicene, MoS 2 , MoSe 2 , WS 2 , WSe 2 , h‐ AlN , h‐ BN , fluorographene, and graphane). Ultra‐thin crystals are atomically thick‐layered crystals that have unique properties which dif...

Motivated by a recent experiment that reported the synthesis of a new 2D material nitrogenated holey graphene (C$_2$N) [Mahmood \textit{et al., Nat. Comm.}, 2015, \textbf{6}, 6486], electronic, magnetic, and mechanical properties of nitrogenated (C$_2$N), phosphorated (C$_2$P) and arsenicated (C$_2$As) monolayer holey graphene structures are invest...

Motivated by the recent synthesis of single layer TiSe2 , we used state-of-the-art density functional theory calculations, to investigate the structural and electronic properties of zigzag and armchair- edged nanoribbons of this material. Our analysis reveals that, differing from ribbons of other ultra-thin materials such as graphene, TiSe2 nanorib...

Motivated by the recent synthesis of layered hexagonal aluminum nitride (h-AlN), we investigate its layer- and strain-dependent electronic and optical properties by using first-principles methods. Monolayer h-AlN is a wide-gap semiconductor, which makes it interesting especially for usage in optoelectronic applications. The optical spectra of 1-, 2...

In this study, we present a theoretical investigation of structural, electronic, and mechanical properties of pentagonal monolayers of carbon (p-graphene), boron nitride (p-B2N4 and p-B4N2), and silver azide (p-AgN3) by performing state-of-the-art first principles calculations. Our total energy calculations suggest feasible formation of monolayer c...

The effect of an applied electric field and the effect of charging are investigated on the magnetic anisotropy (MA) of various stable two-dimensional (2D) crystals such as graphene, FeCl2, graphone, fluorographene, and MoTe2 using first-principles calculations. We found that the magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy of Co-on-graphene and Os-doped-Mo...

The electronic properties, carrier mobility, and strain response of TiS3 nanoribbons (TiS3 NRs) are investigated by first-principles calculations. We found that the electronic properties of TiS3 NRs strongly depend on the edge type (a or b). All a-TiS3 NRs are metallic with a magnetic ground state, while b-TiS3 NRs are direct band gap semiconductor...

Ca(OH)2 crystals, well known as portlandite, are grown in layered form, and we found that they can be exfoliated on different substrates. We performed first principles calculations to investigate the structural, electronic, vibrational, and mechanical properties of bulk, bilayer, and monolayer structures of this material. Different from other lamel...

The structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of pristine, defective, and oxidized monolayer TiS3 are investigated using first-principles calculations in the framework of density functional theory. We found that a single layer of TiS3 is a direct band gap semiconductor, and the bonding nature of the crystal is fundamentally different from oth...

Motivated by a recent experiment that reported the successful synthesis of hexagonal (h) AlN [Tsipas et al. Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 251605 (2013)] we investigate structural, electronic and vibrational properties of bulk, bilayer and monolayer structures of h-AlN by using first-principles calculations. We show that the hexagonal phase of the bulk h-A...

Many experiments have revealed that the surfaces of graphene and graphene-like structures can play an active role as a host surface for clusterization of transition metal atoms. Motivated by these observations, we investigate theoretically the adsorption, diffusion and magnetic properties of Pt clusters on three different two-dimensional atomic cry...

The diffusive motion of metal nanoparticles Au and Ag on monolayer and between bilayer heterostructures of transition metal dichalcogenides and graphene are inves- tigated in the framework of density functional theory. We found that the minimum energy barriers for diffusion and the possibility of cluster formation depend strongly on both the type o...

Cleavage induced rows of linear vacancy structures on p-doped ZnTe (110) surface are studied at room temperature by using cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy (X-STM). The oscillating contrast superimposed on the Te-driven occupied states neighboring to the vacancy cores are characterized at the atomic scale in order to determine the type...

In the limit of strong electron-phonon coupling, we provide a unified insight into the stability criterion for bipolaron formation in low-dimensionally confined media. The model that we use consists of a pair of electrons immersed in a reservoir of bulk LO phonons and confined within an anisotropic parabolic potential box, whose barrier slopes can...

Low-energy excitations of graphene are massless Dirac fermions due to presence of linear bands crossing at the Fermi level. Zigzag-edged nanoribbons of graphene (ZGNR), however, being semiconducting, do not possess this property. Using ab initio density-functional theory calculations we find that it is possible to close the band gap of ZGNRs throug...

Using first principles pseudopotential density functional theory calculations, we find that terminating zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNR) with monovalent alkali atoms at a reduced concentration has a dramatic impact on their properties. In particular, using sodium atoms for the saturation of ZGNR edges at half the concentration of edge-carbon atom...

. The bipolaronic ground state of two electrons in a spherical quantum dot or a quantum wire with parabolic boundaries is studied in the strong electron-phonon coupling regime. We introduce a variational wave function that can conveniently conform to represent alternative ground state configurations of the two electrons, namely, the bipolaronic bo...

We investigate quantum transport properties of triangular graphene flakes with zigzag edges by using first principles calculations. Triangular graphene flakes have large magnetic moments which vary with the number of hydrogen atoms terminating its edge atoms and scale with its size. Electronic transmission and current-voltage characteristics of the...

Using ab initio density-functional theory and quantum transport calculations based on nonequilibrium Green's function formalism we study structural, electronic, and transport properties of small graphene flakes. Rectangular and triangular graphene flakes are stable, having magnetically ordered edge states. We show that a spin-polarized current can...

Using first-principles plane-wave calculations, we investigate two-dimensional (2D) honeycomb structure of group-IV elements and their binary compounds as well as the compounds of group III-V elements. Based on structure optimization and phonon-mode calculations, we determine that 22 different honeycomb materials are stable and correspond to local...

Using ab initio density functional theory and quantum transport calculations based on nonequi-librium Green's function formalism we study structural, electronic, and transport properties of hydrogen-terminated short graphene nanoribbons (graphene flakes) and their functionalization with vanadium atoms. Rectangular graphene flakes are stable, having...

In this work, the effects of N incorporation on the optical properties of GaAsSbN/GaAs single quantum wells (SQWs) have been investigated using temperature, excitation, and magnetic dependencies of photoluminescence (PL) characteristics. These layers were grown in an elemental solid source molecular beam epitaxy system with a rf plasma N source. Th...

Recently, first-principles calculations based on the spin-dependent density functional theory (DFT) have revealed that the magnetic ground state of a finite linear carbon chain capped by two transition metal (TM) atoms alternates between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic configurations depending on the number of carbon atoms. The character of ind...

In this work, the authors present a systematic study on the variation of the structural and the optical properties of GaAsSbN / GaAs single quantum wells SQWs as a function of nitrogen concentration. These SQW layers were grown by the solid source molecular beam epitaxial technique. A maximum reduction of 328 meV in the photoluminescence PL peak en...

Dynamics of dissipation local vibrations to the surrounding substrate is a key issue in friction between sliding surfaces as well as in boundary lubrication. We consider a model system consisting of an excited nano-particle which is weakly coupled with a substrate. Using three different methods, we solve the dynamics of energy dissipation for diffe...

Dynamics of dissipation of a local phonon distribution to the bulk is a key issue in boundary lubrication and friction between sliding surfaces. We consider a highly excited molecule which interacts weakly with the substrate surface. We study different types of coupling and substrates having different types of dimensionality and phonon densities of...

Dynamics of dissipation of a local phonon distribution to the substrate is a key issue in friction between sliding surfaces as well as in boundary lubrication. We consider a model system consisting of an excited nano-particle which is weakly coupled with a substrate. Using three different methods we solve the dynamics of energy dissipation for diff...

Periodic atom chains of carbon-cobalt compounds, (CnCo)∞, comprise both conducting and insulating electronic properties simultaneously depending on the spin type of electrons, and hence are half-metals. Their band gap and the net magnetic moment oscillate with the number of carbon atoms in a unit cell. Finite segments of these chains also show inte...

In this paper we present an extensive study of the electronic, magnetic, and transport properties of finite and infinite periodic atomic chains composed of carbon atoms and 3d transition metal TM atoms using first-principles methods. Finite-size, linear molecules made of carbon atomic chains caped with TM atoms, i.e., TM-C n -TM structures are stab...

Spin-polarized electronic and transport properties of carbon atomic chains are investigated when they are capped with magnetic transition-metal (TM) atoms like Cr or Co. The magnetic ground state of the TM-C(n)-TM chains alternates between the ferromagnetic (F) and antiferromagnetic (AF) spin configurations as a function of n. In view of the nanosc...

Localization dynamics of excitons was studied for ZnO/MgZnO and CdZnO/MgZnO quantum wells (QW). The experimental photoluminescence (PL) and absorption data were compared with the results of Monte Carlo simulation in which the excitonic hopping was modeled. The temperature-dependent PL linewidth and Stokes shift were found to be in a qualitatively r...

We report the determination of the energy-band offsets between GaN and AlN using the linewidth (full width at half maximum) of an extremely sharp excitonic luminescence transition in AlxGa1−xN alloy with x = 0.18 at 10 K. Our sample was grown on C-plane sapphire substrate by metal-organic chemical-vapor deposition at 1050 °C. The observed value of...

Our first-principles calculations show that monatomic chains of carbon have high cohesive energy and axial strength, and are stable even at high temperatures. Pure carbon chains are metallic, and periodic compounds of carbon with transition- metals exhibit half-metallic properties where the electronic spins are fully polarized at the Fermi level. F...

We found that magnetic ground state of one-dimensional atomic chains of carbon–transition-metal com-pounds exhibit half-metallic properties. They are semiconductors for one spin direction, but show metallic properties for the opposite direction. The spins are fully polarized at the Fermi level and net magnetic moment per unit cell is an integer mul...

In recent ultra-high-vacuum transmission-electron-microscopy experiments evidence is found for the formation of suspended gold single-wall nanotubes (SWNTs) composed of five helical strands. Similar to carbon nanotubes, the (n,m) notation defines the structure of the gold SWNTs. Experimentally, only the (5,3) tube has been observed to form among se...

Using the first-principles plane wave pseudopotential method we have studied structural, electronic, and transport properties of atomic chains of group-IV elements and group III-V and group II-VI binary compounds. Several materials which are insulating or semiconducting in bulk are found to be metallic in nanowire structures. Our calculations revea...

This paper presents an extensive study of various string and tubular structures formed by carbon atomic chains. Our study is based on first-principles pseudopotential plane wave and finite-temperature ab initio molecular dynamics calculations. Infinite- and finite-length carbon chains exhibit unusual mechanical and electronic properties such as lar...

Carbon forms various nanostructures based on the monatomic chains or strings which show transport properties of fundamental and technological interest. We have carried out first-principles quantum conductance calculations using optimized structures within density functional theory. We treated finite segments of carbon monatomic chain, metal-semicon...

Based on first-principles calculations we show that gold atoms can form both freestanding and tip-suspended chiral single-wall nanotubes composed of helical atomic strands. The freestanding, infinite (5,5) tube is found to be energetically the most favorable. While energetically less favorable, the experimentally observed (5,3) tube stretching betw...

We have studied by grazing incidence x-ray diffraction the atomic positions near the surface of Cu(211) and Cu(322). For Cu(211), the relaxations are confined to the first atoms, and show a contraction of the step edge. For Cu(322), they extend deeper in the bulk. In that case, by comparing the experimental results with molecular dynamics simulatio...

First-principles calculations show that monatomic strings of carbon have high cohesive energy and axial strength, and exhibit stability even at high temperatures. Because of their flexibility and reactivity, carbon chains are suitable for structural and chemical functionalizations; they also form stable ring, helix, grid, and network structures. An...

Carbon nanotubes, in which the two-dimensional hexagonal lattice of graphene is transformed into a quasi-one-dimensional lattice by conserving the local bond arrangement, provide several structural parameters for engineering novel physical properties suitable for ultimate miniaturization. Recent interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology has driven...

We present a brief description of the calculation of the variation of the binding energy of the heavy-hole exciton as a function of well width in quantum well structures composed of II–VI compound semiconductors including the effects of exciton–optical phonon interaction as formulated by Pollmann and Büttner [J. Pollmann and H. Büttner, Phys. Rev....

We report a measurement of the variation of the diamagnetic shift of a heavy-hole exciton in a single coherently strained GaAs0.685Sb0.3N0.015/GaAs quantum well as a function of magnetic field up to 32 T at 1.3 K using photoluminescence spectroscopy. The excitons are known to be localized in this alloy system. This localization is simulated by assu...

We have calculated the variation of the photoluminescence excitonic linewidth, defined as the full width at half maximum, due to composition fluctuations as a function of nitrogen composition in completely random GaAs 1x N x alloys. We have considered the effects of a constant and of the composition dependent bowing parameter and, thus, the energy...

We present a calculation of the variation of the binding energy of a heavy-hole exciton in a highly ionic quantum well structure, as a function of well width using a variational approach. We include the effects of exciton-phonon interaction and of mismatches between the particle masses and the dielectric constants of the well and barrier layers. Th...

We have measured the diamagnetic shift of a heavy-hole exciton in a single 60 Å wide GaAs0.7Sb0.3/GaAs quantum well as a function of magnetic field up to 32 T at 1.3 K using photoluminescence spectroscopy. The sample was grown on (001)-oriented GaAs substrate using solid-source molecular beam epitaxy. We have calculated the variation of the diamagn...

We report the results of a variational calculation of the energy and the oscillator strength of the exciton ground state in a spherical ionic quantum dot as a function of radius, assuming infinite potential barriers. The strong interaction of the exciton with optical phonons is taken into account by using an effective potential between the electron...

A calculation of the variations of the energy and oscillator strength of the ground state of an exciton in an ionic quantum dot as a function of the dot size, using a parabolic confining potential and a variational approach, is presented. The strong exciton–phonon interaction is taken into account by using an effective potential between the electro...

We report the results of a variational calculation of the energy and the oscillator strength of exciton ground state in a spherical ionic quantum dot as a function of radius, assuming infinite and finite potential barriers. The strong interaction of the exciton with optical phonons is taken into account by using an effective potential between the e...

Single and multiple quantum well (QW) structures of GaAsSb/GaAs have been grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) for different compositions of Sb ranging from 17with corresponding shift in the PL peak positions from 1.125 eV to 0.98 eV. Low values of the full width at half maxima of the PL linewidth at 4K in the range of 17-23 meV and the presence o...

In the strong-electron-phonon-coupling regime, we retrieve the stability criterion for bipolaron formation in a spherical quantum dot. The model that we use consists of a pair of electrons immersed in a reservoir of bulk LO phonons and confined within an isotropic parabolic potential box. In this particular quasi-zero-dimensional geometry, where th...

In the limit of strong electron-phonon coupling, we analyze the stability of two dimensional bipo-larons in a two-axis elliptic potential well of harmonic boundaries. The confined two-polaron wavefunction adopted here makes the electrons to form either a bipolaronic bound state or go into a composite state of two separated polarons bounded inside t...

We have measured both the diamagnetic shifts and the linewidths of excitonic transitions in Alx Ga_1-xAs alloys as a function of aluminum concentration and magnetic field at 1.4 K using photoluminescence spectroscopy. The aluminum composition in our samples ranged from 0 to 300 to 50 tesla. The samples were grown on GaAs substrates oriented along [...

We have measured the diamagnetic shifts and linewidths of excitonic transitions in In_0.48Ga_0.52P alloys lattice matched to GaAs as a function of order parameter and magnetic field at 4 and 76K using photoluminescence spectroscopy. The magnetic field ranged between 0 and 50T. We find that for a sample with a given order parameter, the diamagnetic...

We study the energy-transfer rate for electrons in a double-quantum-well structure, where the layers are coupled through screened Coulomb interactions. The energy-transfer rate between the layers (similar to the Coulomb drag effect in which the momentum transfer rate is considered) is calculated as functions of electron densities, interlayer spacin...