Research
Publications

Publications based on Picosun products: 

Chemical precursors

• Atomic Layer Deposition of Gold Metal
• Atomic Layer Deposition of Aluminum Metal Films Using a Thermally Stable Aluminum Hydride Reducing Agent
• Volatile and Thermally Stable Mid to Late Transition Metal Complexes Containing α-Imino Alkoxide Ligands, a New Strongly Reducing Coreagent, and Thermal Atomic Layer Deposition of Ni, Co, Fe, and Cr Metal Films
• Low-Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition of Copper Films Using Borane Dimethylamine as the Reducing Co-reagent
• Atomic Layer Deposition of Tungsten-Rich Tungsten Carbide Films Using WCl₆ and AlH₂(tBuNCH₂CH₂NMe₂) as Precursors

Flexible electronics

• Barrier properties of Al₂O₃ and alucone coatings and nanolaminates on flexible biopolymer films
• Transparent, Flexible, and Passive Thermal Touch Panel
• Flexible double gate a-IGZO TFT fabricated on free standing polyimide foil
• Bending impact on the performance of a flexible Li₄Ti₅O₁₂-based all-solid-state thin-film battery
• Flexible Thermoelectric ZnO–Organic Superlattices on Cotton Textile Substrates by ALD/MLD

Graphene

• A graphene integrated highly transparent resistive switching memory device
• Direct Deposition of Uniform High-κ Dielectrics on Graphene
• Trimethyl-aluminum and ozone interactions with graphite in atomic layer deposition of Al₂O₃
• The effect of graphite surface condition on the composition of Al₂O₃ by atomic layer deposition

In-situ analytics

• Initial growth, refractive index, and crystallinity of thermal and plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition AlN films
• Room-temperature plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition of ZnO: Film growth dependence on the PEALD reactor configuration
• Excellent Wetting Behavior of Yttria on 2D Materials
• In situ atomic layer deposition half cycle study of Al₂O₃ growth on AlGaN
• In situ surface pre-treatment study of GaAs and In_0.53Ga_0.47As
• Initial and steady-state Ru growth by atomic layer deposition studied by in situ Angle Resolved X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Nanotechnology

• Bottom-Up Tailoring of Plasmonic Nanopeapods Making Use of the Periodical Topography of Carbon Nanocoil Templates
• Preparation and Elastic Properties of Helical Nanotubes Obtained by Atomic Layer Deposition with Carbon Nanocoils as Templates
• General Assembly Method for Linear Metal Nanoparticle Chains Embedded in Nanotubes
• Curauá Fiber Microimaging, Atomic Layer Deposition of Metal Oxide Films, and Obtaining of Nanowalled Microtubes
• High surface area nanostructured tubes prepared by dissolution of ALD-coated electrospun fibers
• Programming nanostructured soft biological surfaces by atomic layer deposition

Photovoltaics research

• Behind the Nature of Titanium Oxide Excellent Surface Passivation and Carrier Selectivity of c-Si
• Excellent c-Si surface passivation by low-temperature atomic layer deposited titanium oxide
• Efficient bifacial monolithic perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells via bandgap engineering
• ALD Grown Aluminum Oxide Submonolayers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: The Effect on Interfacial Electron Transfer and Performance
• Excellent c-Si surface passivation by thermal atomic layer deposited aluminum oxide after industrial firing activation

Powder ALD

• Evaluation of Biocompatibility and Release of Reactive Oxygen Species of Aluminum Oxide-Coated Materials
• Nanoshells prepared by atomic layer deposition – Long acting depots of indomethacin
• Production and characterization of aluminium oxide nanoshells on spray dried lactose
• Development of an effective bi-functional Ni–CaO catalyst-sorbent for the sorption-enhanced water gas shift reaction through structural optimization and the controlled deposition of a stabilizer by atomic layer deposition
• Li-rich and Ni-rich transition metal oxides: Coating and core-shell structures

Quantum

• Full-color monolithic hybrid quantum dot nanoring micro light-emitting diodes with improved efficiency using atomic layer deposition and nonradiative resonant energy transfer
• HIGHLY TUNABLE HOLE QUANTUM DOTS IN SI-GE SHELL-CORE NANOWIRES
• Transport experiments on p-GaAs quantum dots and point contacts
• Ultrathin Eu- and Er-Doped Y2O3 Films with Optimized Optical Properties for Quantum Technologies
• Structural and Optical Characterization of ZnS Ultrathin Films Prepared by Low-Temperature ALD from Diethylzinc and 1.5-Pentanedithiol after Various Annealing Treatments

UHV clusters

• Trimethyl-aluminum and ozone interactions with graphite in atomic layer deposition of Al₂O₃
• Realization of high-quality HfO₂ on In_0.53Ga_0.47As by in-situ atomic-layer-deposition
• In situ atomic layer deposition and synchrotron-radiation photoemission study of Al₂O₃ on pristine n-GaAs(0 0 1)-4 × 6 surface
• Initial and steady-state Ru growth by atomic layer deposition studied by in situ Angle Resolved X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy