Sala, Elisa M, Dr

Dr Elisa M Sala

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Research Fellow

Semiconductor Materials and Devices Research Group

e.m.sala@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5212

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Dr Elisa M Sala
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Qualifications

I graduated in Solid State Physics at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy) in 2012.

In 2018 I earned my PhD in Solid State Physics at the Technical University of Berlin (Germany), under the supervision of Prof. D. Bimberg, with a thesis entitled “Growth and characterization of antimony-based quantum dots in GaP matrix for nanomemories”.

Research interests

In year 2012 she carried out experimental training on MBE (Molecular Beam Epitaxy) growth and characterization of III-V semiconductor nanostructures at L-NESS, Laboratory for Nanostructure Epitaxy and Spintronics on Silicon (Como, Italy), as part of her master’s degree.

In 2013 she was enrolled in a PhD program within the project HOFUS (Hoch-Funktionale-Speicher – high functional memory architecture) in Bimberg’s group, funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), aiming to demonstrate the feasibility of a quantum-dot-based memory as a novel memory architecture (also named QD-Flash).

During her PhD research studies, she investigated the MOVPE (Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy) growth, the optical and morphological characterization of a novel type of III-V semiconductor quantum dots, and their use as storage unit for the QD-Flash.

Her investigations demonstrated that the QD capture cross-section can be engineered by a fine-tuning of the growth parameters, which led to the storage record of 1 hour at room temperature for MOVPE-grown QDs so far, thus paving the way for an ultimate QD-based nanomemory.

In July 2018 she joined the EPSRC National Epitaxy Facility of the University of ΢��Ȧ as Research Associate in MOVPE.

Here she is dealing with the epitaxy and the characterization of various III-V semiconductor materials, in particular arsenides and phosphides, with a special focus on quantum dots as building blocks for novel optoelectronic devices.

Publications

Journal articles

Banfi EG, Sala EM, Gajjela RSR, Heffernan J & Koenraad PM (2025) . Journal of Applied Physics, 137(13).
Phillips CL, Brash AJ, Godsland M, Martin NJ, Foster A, Tomlinson A, Dost R, Babazadeh N, Sala EM, Wilson L , Heffernan J et al (2024) . Scientific Reports, 14(1).
Gajjela RSR, Sala EM, Heffernan J & Koenraad PM (2022) . ACS Applied Nano Materials.
Sala DEM, Godsland M, Na YI, Trapalis A & Heffernan J (2021) . Nanotechnology, 33(6).
Steindl P, Sala DEM, Alén B, Bimberg D & Klenovsky P (2021) . New Journal of Physics, 23.
Gajjela RSR, Hendriks AL, Douglas JO, Sala EM, Steindl P, Klenovský P, Bagot PAJ, Moody MP, Bimberg D & Koenraad PM (2021) . Light: Science & Applications, 10(1).
Sala EM, Na YI, Godsland M, Trapalis A & Heffernan J (2020) . physica status solidi (RRL) – Rapid Research Letters, 14(8), 2000173-2000173.
Steindl P, Sala EM, Alén B, Marrón DF, Bimberg D & Klenovský P (2019) . Physical Review B, 100(19).
Sala EM, Arikan IF, Bonato L, Bertram F, Veit P, Christen J, Strittmatter A & Bimberg D (2018) . physica status solidi (b), 255(12).
Sala EM, Stracke G, Selve S, Niermann T, Lehmann M, Schlichting S, Nippert F, Callsen G, Strittmatter A & Bimberg D (2016) . Applied Physics Letters, 109(10).
Bonato L, Sala EM, Stracke G, Nowozin T, Strittmatter A, Ajour MN, Daqrouq K & Bimberg D (2015) . Applied Physics Letters, 106(4), 042102-042102.
Sala EM, Bollani M, Bietti S, Fedorov A, Esposito L & Sanguinetti S (2014) . Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Materials, Processing, Measurement, and Phenomena, 32(6).
Stracke G, Sala EM, Selve S, Niermann T, Schliwa A, Strittmatter A & Bimberg D (2014) . Applied Physics Letters, 104(12).
Alimi Y, Guilhabert B, Jevtics D, Sala EM, Strain M, Groom KM & Heffernan J () . Semiconductor Science and Technology.
Sala EM, In Na Y & Heffernan J () . Crystal Growth & Design.
Chan CL, Sala EM, Clarke EM & Heffernan J () . Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.
Sala DEM & Klenovsky P () . New Journal of Physics.
Sala EM, Na YI, Godsland M & Heffernan J () . physica status solidi (RRL) – Rapid Research Letters.
Sala EM, Godsland M, Trapalis A & Heffernan J () . physica status solidi (RRL) – Rapid Research Letters.

Preprints

Phillips CL, Brash AJ, Godsland M, Martin NJ, Foster A, Tomlinson A, Dost R, Babazadeh N, Sala EM, Wilson L , Heffernan J et al (2023) , arXiv.
Steindl P, Sala EM, Alén B, Bimberg D & Klenovský P (2021) On the importance of antimony for temporal evolution of emission from self-assembled (InGa)(AsSb)/GaAs quantum dots on GaP(001), arXiv.

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Dr Elisa M Sala

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