Ali Javey (Advisor)

Semiconductor materials are a constant limitation and avenue of improvement for the performance and efficiency of electronic and optoelectronic devices. Nowhere is this clearer than in the parallel fields of microelectronics and photovoltaics, where scaling and optimization of silicon-based systems has dominated tangible innovation in their respective markets for decades. While III-V materials have made inroads in both high efficiency photovoltaics and hybrid opto-electronic circuits, they are traditionally limited in terms of scalability and cost due to the expense of lattice-matched...