Patent

 

Eric Mazur and Mengyan Shen, Femtosecond Laser-Induced Formation of Submicrometer spikes on a semiconductor substrate, US. Patent, Application No.: 11/196,929 (August 4, 2005)

 

 

Refereed Paper

 

After 2003  

 

M. Y. Shen, C. H. Crouch, J. E. Carey, and E. Mazur

Microspikes made with femtosecond laser pulses on metal surfaces

To be published

 

Mengyan Shen, James E. Carey, Catherine H. Crouch, Maria Kandyla, Howard A. Stone, and Eric Mazur

High-density regular arrays of nanometer-scale rods formed on silicon surfaces via femtosecond laser irradiation in water

To be published (2007)

 

Thomas R. Polte, Mengyan Shen, John Karavitis, Martin Montoya, Jay Pendse, Shannon Xia, Eric Mazur and Donald E. Ingber,

Nanostructured magnetizable materials that switch cells between life and death

Biomaterials, 28, 2783-2790 (2007).   

 

James Carey, Catherine Crouch, Mengyan Shen, and Eric Mazur           

Visible and near-infrared responsivity of femitosecond-laser microstructured silicon photodiodes

Opt. Lett. 30, 1773-1775 (2005)

 

M. Y. Shen, C. H. Crouch, J. E. Carey, and E. Mazur

Femtosecond laser-induced formation of submicro-spikes on silicon in water

Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 (2004) 5694-5696, and APL COVER IMAGE 6 DECEMBER 2004.

 

C. H. Crouch, J. E. Carey, M. Y. Shen, E. Mazur, and F. Y. Génin

Infrared absorption by sulfur-doped silicon formed by femtosecond laser irradiation

Applied Physics A 79 (2004) 1635-1641.

 

2003

Adela Ben-Yakar, Robert L. Byer, Anthony Harkin, Jacqueline Ashmore, Howard A. Stone, Mengyan Shen and Eric Mazur

Morphology of femtosecond-laser-ablated borosilicate glass surface

Appl. Phys. Lett. 83 (2003) 3030-3032

 

Shen, M.Y.; Asayama, R.; Goto, T.; Yao, T.

Directional luminescence from quantum dots in quantum well

Journal of Applied Physics 93 (2003) 2957-2961, and also the Virtual Journal of Nanoscience and Technology, vol. 7 (11), March 17, 2003

 

Shen, M.Y.; Crouch, C.H.; Carey, J.E.; Younkin, R.; Mazur, E.; Sheehy, M.; Friend, C.M.

Formation of regular arrays of silicon microspikes by femtosecond laser irradiation through a mask

Appl. Phys. Lett. 82 (2003) 1715-1717, and also Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science, Vol. 2 (3) March 2003

 

Limin Tong, Rafael R. Gattass, Jonathan B. Ashcom, Sailing He, Jingyi Lou, Mengyan Shen, Iva Maxwell, and Eric Mazur

Subwavelength-diameter silica wires for low-loss optical wave guiding

 Nature 426 (2003) 816-819

 

2002

Oda, M.; Shen, M.Y.; Yamamoto, A.; Saito, M.; Goto, T.

Subpicosecond exciton dynamics of CuBr nanocrystals embedded in PMMA

Nonlinear Optics, Principles, Materials, Phenomena, and Devices, 29 (2002) 409-414

 

Godo, K.; Makino, H.; Cho, M.W.; Chang, J.H.; Hong, S.K.; Yao, T.; Shen, M.Y.; Goto, T.

Band alignment of ZnSe/Zn0.75Mg15Be10Se heterostructures

Journal of Applied Physics 91 (2002) 5811-5814

 

2001

M.Oda,  M.Y. Shen, and T.Goto

High density exciton dynamics of CuBr nanocrystals embedded in PMMA

International Journal of Modern Physics B 15 (2001) 3912-15

 

J.H. Chang, J.S. Song, K.Godo, T.Yao, M.Y. Shen,  and  T.Goto

ZnCdTe/ZnTe/ZnMgSeTe quantum well structures for the application to pure-green light-emitting devices

Appl. Phys. Lett. 78 (2001) 566-568

 

Bryknar, Z.; Potucek, Z.; Trepakov, V.; Shen, M.Y.; Goto, T.
Decay kinetics and thermally stimulated luminescence of Mn
4+ in SrTiO3
Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids 154(2001) 341-345

 

Godo, K.; Makino, H.; Cho, M.W.; Chang, J.H.; Yamazaki, Y.; Yao, T.; Shen, M.Y.; Goto, T.

Composition dependence of the energy gap of Zn1-x-yMgxBeySe quaternary alloys nearly lattice matched to GaAs
Appl. Phys. Lett. 79 (2001) 4168-4170

 

M.Oda, M.Y.Shen, M.Saito, and T.Goto

Quantum-size confinement of excitons in CuBr nanocrystals embedded in a polymer

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 13 (2001) 11465-72

 

Zhao, L.-Z.; Shen M.-Y.; Goto, T.

Growing N-salicyludeneaniline (SA) single crystal by physical vapour depositation and its polarization property

Acta Physica Sinica 50 (2001) 1540-4

 

Zhu, W; Zhang, B.; Zhao, W.; Wang, K.; Jiang, X.; Zhang, Z.; Xu, S.; Shen, M; Goto, T.

Luminescence properties of nanocrystalline ZnS:Mn in SiO2 aerogels

Acta Optica Sinica 21 (2001) 215-217

 

2000

M.Y.Shen, L.Z. Zhao and T.Goto, A. Mordzinski

Polarization dependence of photochromism in an N-salicylideneaniline single crystal

J. Chem. Phys. 112 (2000) 2490-2497

 

M.Oda, M.Y.Shen, M.Saito, and T. Goto

Photobrightening of CuBr nanocrystals in PMMA

J. Luminescence 87-89 (2000) 469-4671

 

M.Y. Shen,  L.Z. Zhao, T. Goto and A. Mordzinski

Photochromism in salicylideneaniline (SA) single crystal

J. Luminescence 87-89 (2000) 667-669

 

J.H. Chang, M.W. Cho, S.K. Hong, K. Godo, H. Makino, T. Yao, M.Y. Shen, T. Goto

Charaterization of ZnSe/ZnMgBeSe single quantum wells

Physica E 7 (2000) 576-580

 

1999

E. Kurtz, T. Sekiguchi, Z. Zhu, T.Yao, J.X.Shen, Y. Oka, M.Y. Shen, T.Goto

Growth and time-resolved photoluminescence study of self-organized CdSe quantum dots in ZnSe

Superlattices Microstruct. 25 (1999) 119-125

 

M.Y.Shen, M.Oda, T.Goto,

Direct evidence of photo-ionization in CdTe nanocrystals embedded in TOPO

Phys. Rev. Lett. 82 (1999) 3915-3918

 

J.H.Chang, MW.Cho, K.Godo, H.Makino, T.Yao, M.Y.Shen, T.Goto

Low-threshold optically pumped lasing at 444 nm at room temperature with high characteristic temperature from Be-chalcogenide-based single-quantum-well laser structures

Appl. Phys. Lett. 75 (1999) 894-896

 

D.M.Bagnall, Y. Chen, Z. Zhu, T.Yao, M.Y.Shen, and T.Goto

Plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy of ZnO for optoelectronic applications

Recent Res. Devel. Crystal Growth Res., 1 (1999) 257-273

 

1998

D.M. Bagnall, Y.F.Chen, M.Y.Shen, Z.Zhu, T.Goto, T.Yao

Room temperature excitonic stimulated emission from zinc oxide epilayers grown by plasma assited MBE

J. Crystal Growth 184/185 (1998) 605-609

 

P. Tomasini, K.Arai, F.Lu, Z.Q.Zhu, T.Yao, T.Sekiguchi, M.Suezawa, M.Y.Shen, T.Goto, T.Yasuda, Y.Segawa

Luminescence properties of ZnSe/ZnS(h11) low dimensional structures

J. Crystal Growth 184/186 (1998) 343-346

 

P. Tomasini, K.Arai, F.Lu, Z.Q.Zhu, T.Yao, T.Sekiguchi, M.Suezawa, M.Y.Shen, T.Goto, T.Yasuda, Y.Segawa

Orientation dependence of strained ZnSe/ZnS(h11) single quqntum well luminescence

J. Appl. Phys 83 (1998) 4272-4278

 

P. Tomasini, K.Arai, F.Lu, Z.Q.Zhu, T.Sekiguchi, T.Yao, M.Y.Shen, T.Goto

Localization and thermal escape of excitons in untra-thin ZnSe/ZnS single quantum wells

J. Appl.Phys. 83 (1998) 6028-6033

 

M.Y.Shen, T. Goto, E.Kurtz, Z.Zhu, T.Yao

Photoluminescence properties of single CdSe quantum dots in ZnSe obtained by self-organized growth

J. Phys.:Condensed Matter (Letter to the Editor) 10 (1998) L171-L176

 

D.M.Bagnall, Y.F.Chen, Z.Zhu, T.Yao, M.Y.Shen, T.Goto

High temperature excitonic stimulated emission from ZnO epitaxial layers

Appl. Phys. Letters 73 (1998) 1038-1040

 

M.W. Cho, J.H. Chang , H. Makino, T. Yao , A. Ishibashi, M.Y. Shen, T, Goto

MBE growth and device characterization of Be-based materials for application to blue-green laser diodes

Blue Laser and Light Emitting Diodes II, xx+736, (Ohmsha, Tokyo, 1998) 22-25

 

D.M. Bagnall, Y. Chen,  Hang-Jun Ko, Ziquiang Zhu, M.Y. Shen , T. Goto, T. Yao

ZnO excitonic lasers-the future of short wavelength emission?

Blue Laser and Light Emitting Diodes II,  xx+736, (Ohmsha, Tokyo, 1998) 536-539

 

1997

Y.Wu, K.Arai, N.Kuroda, T.Yao, A.Yamamoto, M.Y.Shen, T.Goto

Optical properties of manganese-doped ZnSe/ZnS quantum dots grown by molecular beam epitaxy

Jpn.J.Appl.Phys. 36Pt.2 (12B)(1997) 1648-1650

 

T.Goto, M.Y.Shen, S.Koyama, T. Yokouchi

Bose-Einstein statistics of orthoexcitons generated by two-photon resonant absorption in cuprous oxide

Phys. Rev. B 55 (1997) 7609-7614

 

D.M. Bagnall, Y.F. Chen, Z.Zhu, T.Yao, S.Koyama, M.Y.Shen, T.Goto

Optically pumped lasing of ZnO at room temperature

Appl. Phys. Letters 70 (1997) 2230-2232

 

P. Tomasini, K.Arai, F.Lu, Z.Q.Zhu, T.Yao, T.Sekiguchi, M.Suezawa, M.Y.Shen, T.Goto, T.Yasuda, Y.Segawa

Optical properties of ZnSe/ZnS quantum wire structures when using high index substrates

Nonlinear Optics 18 (1997) 215-218

 

D.M. Bagnall, Y.F. Chen, Z.Zhu, T.Yao, M.Y. Shen, T.Goto

High temperature stimulated emission of ZnO grown by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy

Nonlinear Optics 18 (1997) 243-246

 

Y. Chen, D. M. Bagnall, Z. Zhu, T. Sekiuchi, K. Park, K. Hiraga, T. Yao, S. Koyama, M. Y. Shen, T.Goto

Growth of ZnO single crystal thin films on c-plane (0001)sapphire by plasma enhanced molecular beam epitaxy

J. Crystal Growth (Letter to the Editors) 181 (1997) 165-169

 

M.Y.Shen, T.Yokouchi, S.Koyama, T.Goto

Dynamics associated with Bose-Einstein statistics of orthoexcitons generated by resonant excitations in cuprous oxide

Phys. Rev. B. 56 (1997) 13066-13072

 

1996

T. Goto,  H.Tanaka, M.-Y. Shen, S. Sasaki, M.Miura

Diamagnetic shift of exciton level in ultra-thin PbI2 crystals

Solid State Commun. 97 (1996) 587-590

 

M.Y.Shen, S.Koyama, M.Saito, T.Goto, N.Kuroda

Second-harmonic generation resonant to the 1S orthoexciton level of cuprous oxide

Phys. Rev. B 53 (1996) 13477-13481

 

M.Y.Shen, S.Koyama, T.Goto, K.Arai, A.Kasuya, YH.Wu, T.Yao

The photoluminescence from ZnS/(ZnSe)1/ZnS Heterostructures

Materials Sci. & Eng. A 217/218 (1996) 189-192

 

1995

M-Y. Shen, S. Yano, T. Goto, F.Sato, M.Tanaka

Nonlinear optical properties of CdTe microcrystallites in CaF2 thin film

Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 34 Suppl. 34-1 (1995) 134-136

 

Y. Ikemoto, M-Y. Shen, T.Goto

Electron dynamics in CdSe microcrystallites in porous glass

Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 34 Suppl. 34-1 (1995) 31-33

 

1994

P. Tanner and M.-Y. Shen

Superparameterization of low-temperature vibrational data for lanthalide anions

Spectrochimica Acta 50A (1994) 997-1003

 

M-Y. Shen,  M. Saito, T. Goto, F. Sato, M.Tanaka

Structure and optical properties of CdTe microcrystallites in CaF2

J. Phys. Condensed Matter 6 (1994) 8479-8486

 

1993

S.Zhang, Y.Hou, K.He, M.Shen, B.Qian, P.Diao, S.Cai

Photoluminescence step-like behaviour of porous silicon with HF concentration

Chin. J. Semicond. 14 (1993) 123-127

 

Meng-Yan Shen and Shu-Lin Zhang

Band gap of a silicon quantum wire

Phys. Letters  176A (1993) 254-258

 

S.L.Zhang,Y.T.Hou, M.Y. Shen, J.Li , S.X. Yuan

Multiphonon Raman scattering resonant with two kinds of excitons in a (CdTe)2(ZnTe)4/ZnTe short-period-superlattice multiple quantum well

Phys. Rev. B47  (1993) 12937-12940

 

Meng-Yan Shen

Raman phonon of silicon wires

Phys. Letters 180A (1993) 295-298

   

M.Y. Shen, M. Saito, T.Goto, F. Sato, M.Tanaka

Optical properties of CdTe micro crystallites in CaF2

Sci. Rep. Res. Tohoku A 39 (1993) 63-67

 

1992

Meng-Yan Shen, Xiao-Jie Zhang, Ying Jin, Jing-Jing Wang, Shu-Lin Zhang, Shi-Xin Yuan, Jie Li

Spectroscopy in the ZnTe/CdTe multiple quantum wells

J.Crystal Growth 117 (1992) 470-474

 

Meng-Yan Shen, Shu-Lin Zhang, Yu-Fen Zhang

Raman spectroscopy of nonsuperconductor and superconductor Nd2-xCexCuO4 

Physica C  196 (1992) 95-97

 

Y.T.Hou, Ying Jin, M.Y.Shen, S.L. Zhang, J.Li, S.X.Yuan

Raman scattering of a CdTe/ZnTe superlattice and quantum wells

Superlattices Microstruct. 12 (1992) 69-71

 

1991

G. Xiong, X. Xu, M. Shen, D. Lee, J. Qi

Electric field effect on optical nonlinear absorption in semiconductor

Chin. J. Semicond. 12 (1991) 172-176

 

1990

Xu Xurong, Lei Gang, Shen Mengyan, Zhao Guozhang 

Preliminary trial of third generation electroluminescence (EL)

J. Crystal Growth 101 (1990) 1004-1008

 

Xu Xurong, Mengyan Shen, Lei Gang, Zhao Guozhang

Attempt at the third generation electroluminescence (EL)

Lattice Dynamics and Semiconductor Physics: festschrift for professor Kun Huang, edited by Xia Jian-Bai, (World Scientific 1990) pp557, and  Acta Polytech. Scand. Appl. Phys. Ser. PH170 (1990) 133-136

 

Lei Gang, Mengyan Shen, Xu Zheng, Xu Xurong

Energy distribution of hot electrons in TFEL  Device

Acta Polytech. Scand. Appl. Phys. Ser. PH170 (1990) 295-297

 

1989

Meng-Yan Shen and Xu-Rong Xu

Impact excitation cross-section in electroluminescence

Electroluminescence, Springer Proceeding in Physics 38 (1989) 32-35

 

Meng-Yan Shen and Xu-Rong Xu

Anisotropy of the cross-section of impact excitation in electroluminescence

Solid State Commun. 72 (1989) 803-806

 

1988

Meng-Yan Shen and Shi-Wei Gu

The effect of the electron-phonon interaction on the binding energy of hydrogen impurities in a quantum well

J.Phys.C: Solid State Physics 21 (1988) 1091-1098, and J. Lumin.40&41 (1988) 735-736

 

Shi-Wei Gu and Meng-Yan Shen

Binding energy of exciton in a polar crystal slab

J. Lumin. 40&41 (1988) 469-470

 

1987

Shi-Wei Gu and Meng-Yan Shen

Exciton in a slab of polar crystal

Phys. Rev. B35 (1987) 9817-9829

 

Shi-Wei Gu and Meng-Yan Shen

Binding energy of exciton in a polar crystal slab

phys. stat. sol. (b) 142 (1987) 473-479

 

 

Review Articles

 

2001

M.Y.Shen, et al.

Dynamical process of photoionization in semiconductor nanocrystals

International Journal of Modern Physics B 15 (2001) 3574-8

 

1998

T.Goto and M.Y. Shen

Bose-Einstein condensation of orthoexcitons in cuprous oxide

Solid State Physics (1998) 190-198

 

 

 

 

Selected Works for Conferences

 

2002

M.Y. Shen, C.H. Crouch, J.E. Carey, R. Younkin, E. Mazur, M.Sheehy, and C.M. Friend

Ordered silicon spikes made with femtosecond laser pulses

Laser Interactions with Materials Gordon Research Conference

Proctor Academy, Andover NH, U.S.A, 2002

 

Limin Tong; Gattass, R.R.; Jingyi Lou; Ashcom, J.B.; Mengyan Shen; Mazur, E.

Submicron and nano-diameter silica wires for optical wave guiding

Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Nano-Optics and Nano-Structures, 4923 (2002) 52

 

2000

M.Y.Shen (invited)

Dynamical process of photoionization in semiconductor nanocrystals

The 2000 International Conference of Excitonic Processes in Condensed Matter (EXCON2000).

Osaka, Japan, 2000

 

M.Y.Shen, R. Asayama, T. Goto, and T.Yao

Directional Luminescence from highly excited quantum dot assembly

25th International conference on the physics of semiconductors, Osaka, Japan, 2000

 

K. Godo, M.W. Cho, J.H. Chang, S.K. Hong, H. Makino, T.Yao, M.Y. Shen, and T.Goto

Optical properties and the band aligment of ZnSe/ZnMgBeSe heterostructure

25th International conference on the physics of semiconductors, Osaka, Japan, 2000

 

1998

E.Kurtz, Z.Zhu, T.Yao, J.X.Shen, Y.Oka, M.Y.Shen, T.Goto

Lateral exciton localization dynamics in CdSe/ZnSe quantum well fluctuations and self-organized wetting layer - quantum dot system

Proceedings of 24th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Israel 1998.

 

M.Shen, M. Oda, T. Goto

Abnormal temperature dependence of photoluminescence in CdTe nanocrystals

Proceedings of Third International Conference on Excitonic Processes in Condensed Matter, Boston 1998. Electrochemical Society Proceedings Volume 98-25, pp281-285

 

M.Oda, M.Y.Shen, M.Saito, T.Goto

Quantum size confinement and photobrightening of CuBr nanocrystals in Polymer

International Workshop on Physics and Applications of Semiconductor Quantum

Structures, Cheju, Korea, 1998

 

1996

S. Koyama, T. Yokouchi, M.Y. Shen, T. Goto

Study of the lowest excited state in CdTe nanocrystallites

Proceedings of the II ASIA Symposium on Condensed Matter Photophysics, Nara, Japan, 1996, edited by T. Hayashi, H. Nishimura and A.H. Matsui, pp313-316

 

M.Y. Shen (invited)

On the Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons in Cu2O

Proceedings of the II ASIA Symposium on Condensed Matter Photophysics, Nara, Japan, 1996, edited by T. Hayashi, H. Nishimura and A.H. Matsui, pp277-280

 

T.Goto, M.Y.Shen, S.Koyama, T. Yokouchi

Possibility of Bose-Einstein condensation of orthoexcitons in Cu2O

Exciton Processes in Condensed Matter edited by M.Schreiber (Dresden University Press, 1996) pp 51-54

 

1995

M.Y. Shen, S.Koyama, M.Saito, T.Goto

Resonant hyper-scattering of orthoexciton in Cu2O

Proceedings of the  ASIA Symposium on Condensed Matter Photophysics, Nara, Japan, 1995, edited by H. Nishimura and A.H. Matsui, pp217-220

 

S.Koyama, M.Y.Shen, T.Goto, K.Arai, A.Kasuya, T.Yao

The photoluminescence from ZnS/(ZnSe)n/ZnS single quantum well

Proceedings of the  ASIA Symposium on Condensed Matter Photophysics, Nara, Japan, 1995, edited by H. Nishimura and A.H. Matsui, pp95-98

 

1992

Meng-Yan Shen, Shu-Lin Zhang, Y.T. Hou, Kuok-San He, Bi-Dong Qian, Sheng-Min Cai

Band gap and Raman phonon in porous silicon quantum wire

Proceedings 21st International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Beijing 1992