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Matt Young

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arXiv2026

Fast Homoepitaxy on (100) \b{eta}-Ga2O3 Substrates with Large Grown-In Offcut

The choice of crystalline orientation and offcut angle is non-trivial for low-symmetry $\beta\text{-Ga}_2\text{O}_3$, where anisotropy impacts bulk and thin film synthesis, material properties, and power device fabrication and performance. Scalable (100)-oriented $\beta\text{-Ga}_2\text{O}_3$ wafers are desirable for electronic devices but are not typically used due to 10-30x slower growth rates compared to other orientations. Here we report molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth rates equal to the fast growth direction by using (100) $Ga_2O_3$ wafers with large grown-in offcuts. The offcuts (up to 13.4{\deg}) are directly grown by Edge-defined Film-fed Growth (EFG) of 2D ribbons with rotated seed crystals, avoiding material loss from crystal boule offcut methods while maintaining high crystalline quality. Chemical-mechanical polishing produces epitaxy-ready substrates, and step flow growth is observed across all offcut angles. We measure an unintentional n-type doping density of $2{\times}10^{15} cm^{-3}$, one of the lowest values reported for MBE-grown films. Planar Schottky barrier diodes on these epilayers without edge termination have an on/off ratio ~10$^5$ and an average breakdown field of 1.56 MV/cm, comparable to or exceeding similar devices fabricated on other orientations. Overall, these results illustrate the importance of both crystal face and offcut angle and validate the use of the scalable (100)-oriented $\beta\text{-Ga}_2\text{O}_3$ wafers.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci↗

arXiv2025

Proc4Gem: Foundation models for physical agency through procedural generation

In robot learning, it is common to either ignore the environment semantics, focusing on tasks like whole-body control which only require reasoning about robot-environment contacts, or conversely to ignore contact dynamics, focusing on grounding high-level movement in vision and language. In this work, we show that advances in generative modeling, photorealistic rendering, and procedural generation allow us to tackle tasks requiring both. By generating contact-rich trajectories with accurate physics in semantically-diverse simulations, we can distill behaviors into large multimodal models that directly transfer to the real world: a system we call Proc4Gem. Specifically, we show that a foundation model, Gemini, fine-tuned on only simulation data, can be instructed in language to control a quadruped robot to push an object with its body to unseen targets in unseen real-world environments. Our real-world results demonstrate the promise of using simulation to imbue foundation models with physical agency. Videos can be found at our website: https://sites.google.com/view/proc4gem

cs.RO↗

arXiv2023

Autonomous Recognition of Erroneous Raw Key Bit Bias in Quantum Key Distribution

As Quantum Key Distribution technologies mature, it is pertinent to consider these systems in contexts beyond lab settings, and how these systems may have to operate autonomously. To begin, an abstract definition of a type of error that can occur with regard to the ratio of bit values in the raw key is presented, and how this has an impact on the security and key rate of QKD protocols. A mechanism by which errors of this type can be autonomously recognised is given, along with simulated results. A two part countermeasure that can be put in place to mitigate against errors of this type is also given. Finally some motivating examples where this type of error could appear in practice are presented to add context, and to illustrate the importance of this work to the development of Quantum Key Distribution technologies.

quant-ph↗

arXiv2018

Optical Characterization of the SPT-3G Focal Plane

The third-generation South Pole Telescope camera is designed to measure the cosmic microwave background across three frequency bands (95, 150 and 220 GHz) with ~16,000 transition-edge sensor (TES) bolometers. Each multichroic pixel on a detector wafer has a broadband sinuous antenna that couples power to six TESs, one for each of the three observing bands and both polarization directions, via lumped element filters. Ten detector wafers populate the focal plane, which is coupled to the sky via a large-aperture optical system. Here we present the frequency band characterization with Fourier transform spectroscopy, measurements of optical time constants, beam properties, and optical and polarization efficiencies of the focal plane. The detectors have frequency bands consistent with our simulations, and have high average optical efficiency which is 86%, 77% and 66% for the 95, 150 and 220 GHz detectors. The time constants of the detectors are mostly between 0.5 ms and 5 ms. The beam is round with the correct size, and the polarization efficiency is more than 90% for most of the bolometers

astro-ph.IM↗