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Georgia Tech Research Corporation

Samuel Graham, Jr

Karl D Hobart

Marko J Tadjer

Mark Goorsky

Travis J Anderson

Andrew D Koehler

Michael Anthony Mastro

Tatyana I Feygelson

Zhe Cheng

Luke Yates

Tingyu Bai

Yekan Wang

Asif Khan

William P King

Ching-Ping Wong

Semiconductor heterostructures having an engineered polarization. Semiconductor materials having specified crystallographic directions and specified polarizations are directly bonded to one another by means of atomic layer bonding without the use of any interfacial bonding materials, where spontaneous polarization of the two layers produced by joining the two materials by direct wafer bonding produces a strong 2DEG or 2DHG at the interface. Embodiments include GaN/AlN and AlN/GaN heterostructures having an N- or Ga-polar GaN layer directly bonded to an N- or Al-polar Al layer. Other embodiments can incorporate an InN epitaxial layer or an alloy incorporating an N-polar, Al-polar, or Ga-polar material having In, Al, or Ga in the crystal lattice, e.g., (InAlN), InGaN, AlGaN, InAlGaN, where (0<x≤1, 0<y≤1, 0<x+y≤1).

Polarization-engineered heterogeneous semiconductor heterostructures

A method for growing polycrystalline diamond films having engineered grain growth and microstructure. Grain growth of a polycrystalline diamond film on a substrate is manipulated by growing the diamond on a nanopatterned substrate having features on the order of the initial grain size of the diamond film. By growing the diamond on such nanopatterned substrates, the crystal texture of a polycrystalline diamond film can be engineered to favor the preferred &#x3c;110&#x3e; orientation texture, which in turn enhances the thermal conductivity of the diamond film.

Diamond on nanopatterned substrate

Systems and methods of nanomaterial transfer are described. A method of nanomaterial transfer involving fabricating a template and synthesizing nanomaterials on the template. Subsequently, the nanomaterials are transferred to a substrate by pressing the template onto the substrate. In some embodiments, the step of transferring the nanomaterials involves pressing the template onto the substrate such that the nanomaterials are embedded below a surface layer of the substrate. In some embodiments, the temperature of the plurality of nanomaterials is raised to assist the transfer of the nanomaterials to the substrate.

Systems and methods for nanomaterial transfer

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Lithonia, GA, United States of America

Samuel Graham, Jr