Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering

Optoelectronics

The Optoelectronics group is part of the Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University. The group is located in the nanofabrication research center Micronova. Optoelectronics group conducts research in the areas of semiconductor materials, optoelectronic components and photonics (e.g. optical fibers). The research is done in collaboration with foreign universities, VTT Microelectronics and industry. Optoelectronics group teaches the first year physics courses for the degree programmes AUT, BioIT and EST in addition to the teaching of NanoRAD majors.

(Figure: Christoffer Kauppinen, Sabbir Ahmed Khan, Jonas Sundqvist, Dmitry B. Suyatin, Sami Suihkonen, Esko I. Kauppinen, and Markku Sopanen, "Atomic layer etching of gallium nitride" Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A 35, 060603 (2017); doi: 10.1116/1.4993996)
Etched GaN surface
"Atomic layer etching of gallium nitride"

The main research topics are:

  • Dilute nitrides and SESAM structures
  • GaN technology
  • HVPE 
  • LED-microarrays
  • Quantum dot structures
  • Novel LED structures

Group members

Markku Sopanen

Professori (Associate professor)

Latest publications

Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition of AlN on High Degree Roughness Vertical Surfaces for MEMS Fabrication

Kristina Bespalova, Glenn Ross, Sami Suihkonen, Mervi Paulasto-Kröckel 2024 Advanced Electronic Materials

Ultrasensitive Monolithic Dopamine Microsensors Employing Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers

Lingju Meng, Maedeh Akhoundian, Anas Al Azawi, Yalda Shoja, Pei-Yin Chi, Kristoffer Meinander, Sami Suihkonen, Sami Franssila 2024 Advanced Healthcare Materials

Enhanced Specific Detectivity and UV-to-Visible Rejection-Ratio of Visible-Blind Metal– Semiconductor–Metal Photodetectors, Based on Epitaxial GaN/Si(111)

Pinki Pal, Amadeep Kaur, Sami Suihkonen, Jori Lemettinen, A. Laha, Subhabrata Dhar, Suddhasatta Mahapatra 2023 IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Effect of atomic layer annealing in plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition of aluminum nitride on silicon

H Seppanen, I Prozheev, C Kauppinen, S Suihkonen, K Mizohata, H Lipsanen 2023 JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY A

Back-Contacted Carrier Injection for Scalable GaN Light Emitters

Iurii Kim, Christoffer Kauppinen, Ivan Radevici, Pyry Kivisaari, Jani Oksanen 2022 Physica Status Solidi (A) Applications and Materials Science

Impurity diffusion in ion implanted AlN layers on sapphire substrates by thermal annealing

Hironori Okumura, Yasuhiro Watanabe, Tomohiko Shibata, Kohei Yoshizawa, Akira Uedono, Hiroki Tokunaga, Shuuichi Koseki, Tadanobu Arimura, Sami Suihkonen, Tomás Palacios 2022 Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

High-Detectivity Ultraviolet Photodetectors with Epitaxial GaN on Si(111)

Pinki Pal, Bhupesh Bhardwaj, Robin Dahiya, Sami Suihkonen, Jori Lemettinen, Apurba Laha, Dinesh Kabra, Suddhasatta Mahapatra 2022 2022 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Electronics, ICEE 2022

A Highly Sensitive and Robust GaN Ultraviolet Photodetector Fabricated on 150-mm Si (111) Wafer

Ravindra Singh Pokharia, Ritam Sarkar, Shivam Singh, Swarup Deb, Sami Suihkonen, Jori Lemettinen, Subhabrata Dhar, Dinesh Kabra, Apurba Laha 2021 IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Epi-Gd₂O₃-MOSHEMT: A Potential Solution Toward Leveraging the Application of /Si AlGaN/GaNHEMT With Improved ION/IOFF Operating at 473 K

Ritam Sarkar, Bhanu B. Upadhyay, Swagata Bhunia, Ravindra S. Pokharia, Dhiman Nag, S. Surapaneni, Jori Lemettinen, Sami Suihkonen, Philipp Gribisch, Hans Jorg Osten, Swaroop Ganguly, Dipankar Saha, Apurba Laha 2021 IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy of wurtzite InP nanowires on GaN

Christoffer Kauppinen, Tuomas Haggren, Harri Lipsanen, Markku Sopanen 2020 Applied Physics Letters
More information on our research in the Aalto research portal.
Research portal

Contact:
Associate Professor Markku Sopanen
Email: markku.sopanen at aalto.fi
Tel.: +358 50 3656 356

Postal address:
Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering
Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering
P.O. Box 13500, 00076 Aalto, Finland

Visiting address:
Micronova, 4th floor, room 4188
Tietotie 3, 02150 Espoo

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