Dr Fouad Karouta

Department	Department of Electronic Materials Engineering
Qualifications	Ph.D. in Physics
Office phone	(02) 612 57174
Email
Office	Leonard Huxley 4 02

Publications

Publications

Journal article

Gao Q, Li Z, Li L, Vora K, Li Z, Wang F, Guo Y, Peng K, Wenas Y, Mokkapati S, Karouta F, Tan H, Jagadish AC C, Fu L, Li L
Axial p-n junction design and characterization for InP nanowire array solar cells
Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications 27, 3(2019) 237-244

Narangari P, Naureen S, Mokkapati S, Vora K, Shahid N, Karouta F, Tan H, Jagadish AC C
Enhanced luminescence from GaN nanopillar arrays fabricated using a top-down process
Nanotechnology 27, 6(2016) 1-6

Camacho Morales M, Kruk S, Rahmani M, Wang L, Xu L, Smirnova D, Solntsev A, Miroshnichenko A, Tan H, Karouta F, Naureen S, Vora K, De Angelis C, Jagadish AC C, Kivshar Y, Neshev D, Carletti L
Nonlinear Generation of Vector Beams from AlGaAs Nanoantennas
Nano Letters 16, 11(2016) 7191-7197

Venkidusamy K, Megharaj M, Schröder U, Karouta F, Mohan V, Naidu R
Electron transport through electrically conductive nanofilaments in Rhodopseudomonas palustris strain RP2
RSC Advances 5, 122(2015) 100790-100798

Lysevych M, Tan H, Karouta F, Jagadish AC C
Effect of active region position in Fabry-Perot single transverse mode broad-waveguide InGaAsP/InP lasers
Optics Express 22, 7(2014) 8156-8164

Karouta F
A practical approach to reactive ion etching
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 47, 23(2014) 233501/1-14

Liu L, Chen W, Powell D, Padilla W, Karouta F, Hattori H, Neshev D, Shadrivov I
Post-processing approach for tuning multi-layered metamaterials
Applied Physics Letters 105, 15(2014)

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Karar A, Tan C, Alameh K, Lee Y, Karouta F
Metal nano-grating optimization for higher responsivity plasmonic-based gaas metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector
Journal of Lightwave Technology 31, 7(2013) 1088-1092

Lysevych M, Tan H, Karouta F, Fu L, Jagadish AC C
Merged beam laser design for reduction of gain-saturation and two-photon absorption in high power single mode semiconductor lasers
Optics Express 21, 7(2013) 8276-8285

Minovich A, Farnell J, Neshev D, McKerracher I, Karouta F, Tian J, Powell D, Shadrivov I, Tan H, Jagadish AC C, Kivshar Y
Liquid crystal based nonlinear fishnet metamaterials
Applied Physics Letters 100, 12(2012) 121113-1-4

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Karouta F, Vora K, Tian J, Jagadish AC C
Structural, Compositional and Optical properties of PECVD silicon nitride layers
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 45, 44(2012) 1-10

Wang B, Dundar M, Notzel R, Karouta F, He S, van der Heijden R
Spectrally encoded photonic crystal nanocavities by independent lithographic mode tuning
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 28, 4(2011) 721-726

Lysevych M, Tan H, Karouta F, Jagadish AC C
Single-step RIE fabrication process of low loss InP waveguide using CH₄/H₂ chemistry
Journal of the Electrochemical Society 158, 3(2011) H281-H284

van de Tol J, Zhang R, Pello J, Bordas F, Roelkens G, Ambrosius H, Thijs P, Karouta F, Smit M
Photonic integration in indium-phosphide membranes on silicon
I E T Optoelectronics 5, 5(2011) 218-225

Andres-Arroyo A, Reece P, Johnson C, Vora K, Karouta F, Jagadish AC C
Wavelength selective filter based on polarization control in a photonic bandgap structure with a defect
Optics Express 19, 25(2011) 25643 - 25650

Dundar M, Wang B, Nötzel R, Karouta F, van der Heijden R
Optothermal tuning of liquid crystal infiltrated InGaAsP photonic crystal nanocavities
Journal of the Optical Society of America B 28, 6(2011) 1514-1517

Karar A, Das N, Tan C, Alameh K, Lee Y, Karouta F
High-responsivity plasmonics-based GaAs metal-semiconductor-metal photodetectors
Applied Physics Letters 99, 13(2011) 1-3

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Wang B, Dundar M, Silov A, Notzel R, Karouta F, He S, van der Heijden R
Controlling mode degeneracy in a photonic crystal nanocavity with infiltrated liquid crystal
Optics Letters 35, 15(2010) 2603-2605

Wang B, Dundar M, Notzel R, Karouta F, He S, van der Heijden R
Photonic crystal slot nanobeam slow light waveguides for refractive index sensing
Applied Physics Letters 97, 15(2010) 1-3

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Kumar R, Liu L, Roelkens G, Geluk E, de Vries T, Karouta F, Regreny P, Van Thourhout D, Baets R, Morthier G
10-GHz all-optical gate based on a IIIV/SOI microdisk
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 22, 13(2010) 981-983

Docter B, Pozo J, Beri S, Ermakov I, Danckaert J, Smit M, Karouta F
Discretely tunable laser based on filtered feedback for telecommunication applications
IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 16, 5(2010) 1405-1412

Dundar M, Ryckebosch E, Notzel R, Karouta F, van IJzendoorn L, van der Heijden R
Sensitivities of InGaAsP photonic crystal membrane nanocavities to hole refractive index
Optics Express 18, 5(2010) 4049-4056

Kicken H, Barbu I, van der Heijden R, Karouta F, Nötzel R, van der Drift E, Salemink H
Wavelength-sized cavities in high aspect InP/InGaAsP/InP photonic crystals
Journal of Applied Physics 106, 8(2009)

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Kicken H, Barbu I, van der Heijden R, Karouta F, Nötzel R, van der Drift E, Salemink H
Wavelength-sized, tunable nanocavity in deeply etched InP/InGaAsP/InP photonic crystals
Optics Letters 34, 14(2009) 2207-2209

Dundar M, Bordas F, Eijkemans T, Chauvin N, Yu A, Nötzel R, Karouta F, Fiore A, van der Heijden R
Lithographic and optical tuning of InGaAsP membrane photonic crystal nanocavities with embedded InAs quantum dots
Journal of Nanophotonics 3, 1(2009) 1-9

Dundar M, Kicken H, Silov A, Notzel R, Karouta F, Salemink H, van der Heijden R
Birefringence-induced mode-dependent tuning of liquid crystal infiltrated InGaAsP photonic crystal nanocavities
Applied Physics Letters 95, 181111(2009) 1-3

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Hill M, Marell M, Leong E, Smallbrugge B, Zhu Y, Sun M, van Veldhoven R, Geluk E, Karouta F, Oei Y, Nötzel R, Ning C, Smit M
Lasing in metal-insulator-metal sub-wavelength plasmonic waveguides
Optics Express 17, 13(2009) 11107-11112

Kicken H, Alkemade P, van der Heijden R, Karouta F, Notzel R, van der Drift E, Salemink H
Wavelength tuning of planar photonic crystals by local processing of individual holes
Optics Express 17, 24(2009) 22005-22011

Kok A, Geluk E, Karouta F, van de Tol J, Baets R, Smit M
Short polarization filter in pillar-based photonic crystals
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 20, 16(2008) 1369-1371

Caro J, Roeling E, Rong B, Nguyen H, van der Drift E, Rogge S, Karouta F, van der Heijden R, Salemink H
Transmission measurement of the photonic band gap of GaN photonic crystal slabs
Applied Physics Letters 93, 5(2008) 1-4

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Carlström C, van der Heijden R, Andriesse M, Karouta F, van der Heijden R, van der Drift E, Salermink H
Comparative study of Cl2, Cl2/O2, and Cl2/N2 inductively coupled plasma processes for etching of high-aspect-ratio photonic-crystal holes in InP
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 26, 5(2008) 1675-1683

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Karouta F
Short cavity DBR laser using vertical groove gratings for large-scale photonic integrated circuits
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 19, 19(2007) 1469-1471

Karouta F
Fabrication of two dimensional GaN nanophotonic crystals (31)
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 25, 6(2007) 2632-2636

Karouta F
Deep hole InP photonic crystals infiltrated with solid polymers and liquid crystals
AIP Conference Proceedings 893(2007) 1163-1164

Karouta F
Reduced reflections from multimode interference couplers
Electronics Letters 42, 8(2006) 39-40

Karouta F
InP-based two-dimensional photonic crystals filled with polymers
Applied Physics Letters 88, 16(2006)

Karouta F
Cl2/O2 -inductively coupled plasma etching of deep hole-type photonic crystals in InP
Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 24, 1(2006) L6-L9

Karouta F
Towards all electrical spin injection and detection in gaas in a lateral geometry
Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism 18, 3(2005) 379-384

Karouta F
Enhancement of p-GaN conductivity using PECVD SiOx
Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters 8, 7(2005) G170-G171

Karouta F, Smit M
Effect of the first-order mode in access waveguides on the performance of unbalanced MMI couplers
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 16, 8(2004) 1882-1884

Karouta F
Controlled Polarization Switching in VCSELs by Means of Asymmetric Current Injection
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 16, 3(2004) 708-710

Karouta F
Optimisation of the Ti/Al/Ni/Au ohmic contact on AlGaN/GaN FET structures
Journal of Crystal Growth 241, 1-2(2002) 15-18

Karouta F
Epitaxy on GaN bulk crystals
Opto-Electronics Review 9, 2(2001) 125-128

Karouta F, Silov A, Smalbrugge E
Dynamic scaling of plasma etched InP surface
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (2000) 201-204

Karouta F
Highly chemical reactive ion etching of gallium nitride
Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings 595(2000) W11761-W11766

Karouta F
Highly chemical reactive ion etching of gallium nitride
MRS Internet Journal of Nitride Semiconductor Research 5, SUPPL. 1(2000)

Karouta F
Polarization stabilization in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers through asymmetric current injection
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 12, 8(2000) 945-947

Karouta F
Final polishing of Ga-polar GaN substrates using reactive ion etching
Journal of Electronic Materials 28, 12(1999) 1448-1451

Karouta F, Jagadish AC C, Tan H
High power CW output from low confinement asymmetric structure diode laser
Electronics Letters 35, 2(1999) 148-149

Karouta F, Danckaert J, Thienpont H
Asymmetric current injection for polarization stabilization in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (1999) 47-48

Karouta F
Chemical and complementary role of fluorine in a chlorine-based reactive ion etching of GaN
Physica Status Solidi (A) Applied Research 176, 1(1999) 755-758

Karouta F
High etch rate and smooth morphology using a novel chemistry in reactive ion etching of GaN
Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters 2, 5(1999) 240-241

Karouta F
Growth of high quality, MOCVD grown Ga-polar GaN layers on GaN substrates after novel reactive ion etching
Physica Status Solidi (A) Applied Research 176, 1(1999) 573-577

Karouta F
Progress in Reactive Ion Etching of epitaxial GaN
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (1999) 171-174

Karouta F
Sealing Method of Dry-Etched AlAs/GaAs Top Mirrors in Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers
Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters 2, 2(1999) 83-85

Karouta F
Fabrication of short GaAs wet-etched mirror lasers and their complex spectral behavior
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 34, 8(1998) 1474-1478

Buda M, Karouta F
Controlled anodic oxidation for high precision etch depth in AlGaAs III-V semiconductor structures
Journal of the Electrochemical Society 145, 3(1998) 1076-1079

(57 publications)

Conference paper

Camacho Morales M, Rahmani M, Kruk S, Wang L, Xu L, Miroshnichenko A, Smirnova D, Tan H, Karouta F, Naureen S, Vora K, Solntsev A, Carletti L, De Angelis C, Jagadish AC C, Kivshar Y, Neshev D
"Shaping the radiation pattern of second-harmonicgeneration from AlGaAs nonlinear nanoantennas"
Nonlinear Photonics 2016 ?, ?(2016) 2

Liu L, Chen W, Powell D, Padilla W, Karouta F, Hattori H, Neshev D, Shadrivov I
Mechanically tunable bi-layer terahertz metamaterials
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2015 (2015)

Narangari P, Naureen S, Wang F, Vora K, Shahid N, Karouta F, Tan H, Jagadish AC C
Fabrication and Photoluminescence Studies of GaN Nanopillars
Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD 2014) ?, ?(2014) 133-136

Naureen S, Shahid N, Vora K, Lysevych M, Tan H, Jagadish AC C, Karouta F
Top-down approach for fabricating InP nanowires with Ohmic metal contacts
Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD 2014) ?, ?(2014) 3-6

Lysevych M, Tan H, Karouta F, Jagadish AC C
Positioning of the active region in broad-waveguide laser for optimized hole injection
Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD 2014) ?, ?(2014) 41-43

Allen T, Bullock J, Cuevas A, Baker-Finch S, Karouta F
Reactive ion etched black silicon texturing: A comparative study
40th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, PVSC 2014 ?, ?(2014) 562-566

Vora K, Karouta F, Jagadish AC C
Nanostencil Lithography for fabrication of III-V nanostructures
Nanoengineering: Fabrication, Properties, Optics, and Devices X 8816(2013) 1-7

Minovich A, Farnell J, Neshev D, McKerracher I, Karouta F, Tian J, Powell D, Shadrivov I, Tan H, Jagadish AC C, Kivshar Y
Nonlinear fishnet metamaterials based on liquid crystal infiltration
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2012) ?, ?(2012) 1-2

Wang H, Parkinson P, Tian J, Saxena D, Mokkapati S, Gao Q, Prasai P, Fu L, Karouta F, Tan H, Jagadish AC C
Optoelectronic properties of GaAs nanowire photodector
Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD 2012) ?, ?(2012) 139-140

Lysevych M, Tan H, Karouta F, Fu L, Jagadish AC C
Reduction of Gain-Saturation in Merged Beam Lasers
Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD 2012) ?, ?(2012) 189-190

Ren Y, Weber K, Karouta F, Vora K, Liang W
Charge trapping and storage in SiN_x thin films deposited with Oxford PlasmaLab 100 system
IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC 2012) ?, ?(2012) 1094-1097

Minovich A, Farnell J, Neshev D, McKerracher I, Karouta F, Tian J, Powell D, Shadrivov I, Tan H, Jagadish AC C, Kivshar Y
Nonlinear effects in liquid-crystal-infiltrated fishnet metamaterials
International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics 2012 ?, ?(2012) 828-830

Li Z, Hattori H, Karouta F, Tian J, Parkinson P, Fu L, Tan H, Jagadish AC C
Coupling of light from microdisk lasters to nano-antennas with nano-tapers
IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC 2012) ?, ?(2012) 889-890

Breuer S, Karouta F, Tan H, Jagadish AC C
MOCVD growth of GaAs nanowires using Ga droplets
Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD 2012) ?, ?(2012) 39-40

Elliman R, Nawaz M, Venkatachalam D, Kim T, Belay K, Karouta F
Resistive Switching on High-K dielectircs for Non-volatile Memory Applications
Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD 2012) ?, ?(2012) 121-122

Kruk S, Minovich A, Farnell J, McKerracher I, Karouta F, Tian J, Powell D, Shadrivov I, Tan H, Jagadish AC C, Neshev D, Kivshar Y
Tunable and nonlinear fishnet metamaterials based on liquid crystal infiltration
Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications V 8455(2012) 1-10

Wang B, Dundar M, Notzel R, Karouta F, He S, van der Heijden R
InGaAsP photonic crystal slot nanobeam waveguides for refractive index sensing
Photonic and Phononic Properties of Engineered Nanostructures 7946(2011) 1-8

Vora K, Belay K, Pyke D, Karouta F, Jagadish AC C
Correlating properties of PECVD SiNx layers to deposition parameters
Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD 2010) ?, ?(2010) 197-198

Dundar M, Christova C, Silov A, Karouta F, Nötzel R, Wienk M, Salemink H, van der Heijden R
Activating photonic crystal membrane nanocavities by infiltrating with liquid crystals or luminescent colloidal nanocrystals
Photonic Crystal Materials and Devices IX 7713(2010) 1-8

Kicken H, Barbu I, Kersten S, Dundar M, van der Heijden R, Karouta F, Notzel R, van der Drift E, Salemink H
Tuning of narrow-bandwidth photonic crystal devices etched in InGaAsP planar waveguides by Liquid Crystal infiltration
Photonic and Phononic Crystal Materials and Devices IX 7223(2009) 1-10

Ryckebosch E, Dundar M, Notzel R, Karouta F, van IJzendoorn L, van der Heijden R
Refractive index sensing with an InGaAsP photonic crystal membrane cavity by means of photoluminescence
14th Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter ?, ?(2009) 45-48

Xu L, Leijthens X, Doctor B, de Vries T, Smallbrugge B, Karouta F, Smit M
MMI-reflector: A novel on-chip reflector for photonic integrated circuits
35th European Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC 2009 ?, ?(2009)

Kicken H, Alkemade P, van der Heijden R, Karouta F, Nötzel R, van der Drift E, Salemink H
Local digital etching and infiltration for tuning of a H1- Cavity in deeply etched InP/InGaAsP/InP photonic crystals
IEEE International Conference on Indium Phosphide and Related Materials, IPRM 2009 ?, ?(2009) 31-34

Bordas F, Roelkens G, Zhang R, Geluk E, Karouta F, van de Tol J, van Veldhoven R, Notzel R, Van Thourhout D, Baets R, Smit M
Compact passive devices in InP membrane on silicon
35th European Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC 2009 ?, ?(2009)

Doctor B, Pozo J, Karouta F, Beri S, Ermakov I, Danckaert J, Smit M
Novel integrated tunable laser using filtered feedback for simple and very fast tuning
35th European Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC 2009 ?, ?(2009)

Doctor B, Pozo J, Karouta F, Beri S, Ermakov I, Danckaert J, Smit M
Deeply-etched DBR gratings for photonics integrated circuits and tunable lasers
14th Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter ?, ?(2009) 65-68

Dundar M, Kicken H, Yu S, Notzel R, Karouta F, van der Heijden R
Liquid crystal tuning of InGaAsP photonic crystal membrane type nanocavities
14th Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter ?, ?(2009) 101-104

(27 publications)

Conference written presentation

Gao Q, Fu L, Li L, Vora K, Li Z, Wang F, Li Z, Wenas Y, Mokkapati S, Karouta F, Tan H, Jagadish AC C
Direct Characterization of Axial p-n Junctions for InP Nanowire Array Solar Cells Using Electron Beam-Induced Current
Light, Energy and the Environment 2015 ?, ?(2015)

(1 publications)

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