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Yimeng Sang, Zhe Zhuang, Tao Tao, Rong Zhang, Bin Liu. Epitaxy of single-crystalline III-nitride semiconductors on amorphous substrates via buffer-layer engineering[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2026, In Press. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/26020054
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Y M Sang, Z Zhuang, T Tao, R Zhang, and B Liu, Epitaxy of single-crystalline III-nitride semiconductors on amorphous substrates via buffer-layer engineering[J]. J. Semicond., 2026, accepted doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/26020054
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Epitaxy of single-crystalline III-nitride semiconductors on amorphous substrates via buffer-layer engineering
DOI: 10.1088/1674-4926/26020054
CSTR: 32376.14.1674-4926.26020054
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Yimeng Sang is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Integrated Circuits, Nanjing University. She received her doctoral degree from Nanjing University in 2024. Her research mainly focuses on group-III nitride optoelectronic materials and device integration. She has published more than ten papers as the first author or co-first author in international journals and conferences including Science Advances, IEEE IEDM, Applied Physics Letters and IEEE Electron Device Letters.
Zhe Zhuang is an Associate Professor at the School of Integrated Circuits, Nanjing University. He earned his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from Nanjing University. He once conducted visiting research at the National Centre for III-V Semiconductors, the University of Sheffield, UK, and pursued postdoctoral research at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. His main research interests lie in the epitaxial growth of group-III nitrides and optoelectronic devices.
Bin Liu is a professor at the School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University. He received his doctoral degree from Nanjing University in 2008. His research focuses on group-III nitride semiconductor materials and devices. In recent years, he has mainly dedicated himself to the epitaxial growth, device fabrication and mechanism research of GaN-based Micro-LEDs.
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