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.