Research at Microphysics Lab

MPL specializes primarily in the growth, characterization and modeling of heterostructures made with semiconducting materials such as Hg-based semiconducting alloys and/or superlattices deposited on GaAs or Si substrates, ZnSe and related wide gap II-VI materials and III-V semiconducting materials.

Prominent areas of research at present are:

• Growth of epilayers and heterostructures using Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE).

• Heteroepitaxy of dissimilar materials.

• Structural and electrical properties.

• in-situ surface physics experiments.

• Electronic properties of two dimensional systems.

• Electronic devices such as photodiodes, MIS structures and infrared lasers.

• Device modeling.

• Optical characterization using modulation spectroscopic techniques.

• Theoretical investigation of the electronic structure of the semiconductor heterostructures.