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Anna Fontcuberta i Morral is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research spans several fields including Engineering and Materials Science, with a significant focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering. Other notable subfields of study include Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their work concentrates on key topics such as Nanowire Synthesis and Applications, Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices, Quantum Dots Synthesis and Properties, along with Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design. They have also focused on Semiconductor materials and devices, 2D Materials and Applications, and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Doping challenges and pathways to industrial scalability of III-V nanowire arrays, 2021, Applied Physics Reviews
  • van der Waals Epitaxy of Earth-Abundant Zn3P2 on Graphene for Photovoltaics, 2020, Crystal Growth & Design
  • Understanding the growth mechanism of BaZrS3 chalcogenide perovskite thin films from sulfurized oxide precursors, 2022, Journal of Physics Energy
  • Simultaneous Selective Area Growth of Wurtzite and Zincblende Self-Catalyzed GaAs Nanowires on Silicon, 2021, Nano Letters
  • Selective area epitaxy of GaAs: the unintuitive role of feature size and pitch, 2022, Nanotechnology

Frequent publication venues for Anna Fontcuberta i Morral include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nanotechnology
  • Nano Letters
  • Nanoscale Advances

They have collaborated extensively with several researchers, frequently co-authoring papers with Simon Escobar Steinvall, Valerio Piazza, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Mirjana Dimitrievska, and Didem Dede.

Best Publications

  • Single-nanowire solar cells beyond the Shockley-Queisser limit

    Peter Krogstrup;Henrik Ingerslev Jørgensen;Martin Heiss;Oliver Demichel

  • Large-Area Epitaxial Monolayer MoS2

    Dumitru Dumcenco;Dmitry Ovchinnikov;Kolyo Marinov;Predrag Lazić

  • Structural and optical properties of high quality zinc-blende/wurtzite GaAs nanowire heterostructures

    D. Spirkoska;J. Arbiol;Anders Gustafsson;S. Conesa-Boj

  • Ga-assisted catalyst-free growth mechanism of GaAs nanowires by molecular beam epitaxy

    C. Colombo;D. Spirkoska;M. Frimmer;G. Abstreiter

  • Light generation and harvesting in a van der Waals heterostructure

    Oriol Lopez-Sanchez;Esther Alarcon Llado;Volodymyr Koman;Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

  • Self-assembled quantum dots in a nanowire system for quantum photonics

    M. Heiss;Y. Fontana;A. Gustafsson;G. Wüst

  • Nucleation mechanism of gallium-assisted molecular beam epitaxy growth of gallium arsenide nanowires

    A. Fontcuberta i Morral;C. Colombo;G. Abstreiter;J. Arbiol

  • Raman spectroscopy of wurtzite and zinc-blende GaAs nanowires: Polarization dependence, selection rules, and strain effects

    I. Zardo;S. Conesa-Boj;F. Peiro;J. R. Morante

  • Gallium arsenide p-i-n radial structures for photovoltaic applications

    C. Colombo;M. Heiβ;M. Grätzel;A. Fontcuberta i Morral

  • Direct correlation of crystal structure and optical properties in wurtzite/zinc-blende GaAs nanowire heterostructures

    Martin Heiss;Martin Heiss;Sonia Conesa-Boj;Sonia Conesa-Boj;Jun Ren;Hsiang-Han Tseng

  • Vapor Phase Growth of Semiconductor Nanowires: Key Developments and Open Questions.

    Lucas Güniat;Philippe Caroff;Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

  • Wafer bonding and layer transfer processes for 4-junction high efficiency solar cells

    J.M. Zahler;A. Fontcuberta i Morral;Chang-Geun Ahn;H.A. Atwater

  • Synthesis of Silicon Nanowires with Wurtzite Crystalline Structure by Using Standard Chemical Vapor Deposition

    A. Fontcuberta i Morral;J. Arbiol;J. D. Prades;A. Cirera

  • Structure and hydrogen content of polymorphous silicon thin films studied by spectroscopic ellipsometry and nuclear measurements

    A. Fontcuberta i Morral;P. Roca i Cabarrocas;C. Clerc

  • Polarity Assignment in ZnTe, GaAs, ZnO, and GaN-AlN Nanowires from Direct Dumbbell Analysis

    Maria de la Mata;Cesar Magen;Jaume Gazquez;Muhammad Iqbal Bakti Utama

  • Influence of Cu as a catalyst on the properties of silicon nanowires synthesized by the vapour?solid?solid mechanism

    Jordi Arbiol;Billel Kalache;Pere Roca i Cabarrocas;Joan Ramon Morante

  • Multi-junction solar cells and methods of making same using layer transfer and bonding techniques

    Harry A. Atwater;James Zahler;Anna Fontcuberta i Morral;Sean Olson

  • GaInP/GaAs/Si TRIPLE JUNCTION SOLAR CELL ENABLED BY WAFER BONDING AND LAYER TRANSFER

    James M. Zahler;Harry A. Atwater;Anna Fontcuberta I. Morral

  • Rational strain engineering in delafossite oxides for highly efficient hydrogen evolution catalysis in acidic media

    Filip Podjaski;Filip Podjaski;Daniel Weber;Daniel Weber;Siyuan Zhang;Leo Diehl;Leo Diehl

  • Three-Dimensional Multiple-Order Twinning of Self-Catalyzed GaAs Nanowires on Si Substrates

    Emanuele Uccelli;Jordi Arbiol;Cesar Magen;Peter Krogstrup

  • Prismatic quantum heterostructures synthesized on molecular-beam epitaxy GaAs nanowires.

    Anna Fontcuberta i Morral;Dance Spirkoska;Jordi Arbiol;Matthias Heigoldt

  • Direct-bonded GaAs /InGaAs tandem solar cell

    Katsuaki Tanabe;Anna Fontcuberta i Morral;Harry A. Atwater;Daniel J. Aiken

Frequent Co-Authors

Jordi Arbiol
Jordi Arbiol Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Gerhard Abstreiter
Gerhard Abstreiter Technical University of Munich
Jesper Nygård
Jesper Nygård University of Copenhagen
Joan Ramon Morante
Joan Ramon Morante Catalonia Institute for Energy Research
Vladimir G. Dubrovskii
Vladimir G. Dubrovskii Saint Petersburg State University
Peter Krogstrup
Peter Krogstrup University of Copenhagen
Francesca Peiró
Francesca Peiró University of Barcelona
Philippe Caroff
Philippe Caroff Microsoft (United States)
Andras Kis
Andras Kis École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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