Recent Publications

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2018
  • E. Cohen, P. Komm, N. Rosenthal-Strauss, J. Dehnel, E. Lifshitz, S. Yochelis, R. D. Levine, F. Remacle, B. Fresch, G. Marcus, Y. Paltiel                                                                                                                                                                                                "Fast Energy Transfer in CdSe Quantum Dot Layered Structures: Controlling Coupling with Covalent-Bond Organic Linkers"                                                                                                                                                                                                     J. Phys. Chem. C. (2018)
  • L. Bezen, S. Yochelis, D. Jayarathna, D. Bhunia, C. Achim, Y. Paltiel                                                                                              "Chiral Molecule- Enhanced Extinction Ratios of Quantum Dots to Random Plasmonic Structures"                                              Langmuir 34(9) (2018) 
  • E. Katzir, N. Sukenik, H. Alpern, S. Yochelis, O. Millo, Y. Paltiel                                                                                                  "Enhanced Vortex Pinning in Nb Using Proximity Effect Through Organic Molecules"                                                                  Jour. of Phys. Commun. (2018)
  • N. Sukenik, H. Alpern, E. Katzir, S. Yochelis, O. Millo, Y. Paltiel                                                                                       "Proximity Effect Through Chiral Molecules in Nb-Graphene Based Devices"                                                                              Adv. Mater. Technol. 1700300 (2018) 
  • D. Munk, M. Katzman, O. Westreich, M. Bin Nun, Y. Lior, N. Sicron, Y. Paltiel, A. Zadok                                                        "Four-Wave Mixing and Nonlinear Parameter Meassurement in a Gallium-Nitride Ridge Waveguide"                                      Opt. Mater. Express 8, 66-72 (2018)    
2017
  • A. Ziv, A. Tzaguy, O. Hazut, S. Yochelis, R. Yerushalmi, Y. Paltiel
         "Self-formed nanogap junctions for electronic detection and characterization of molecules and quantum dots"
         RSC Adv., 7, 25861-25866, (2017)
  • Y. Kurzweil-Segev, I. Popov, I. Eisenberg, S. Yochelis, N. Keren, Y. Paltiel, Y. Feldman
         "Confined water dynamics in hydrated photosynthetic pigment-protein complex
          PCCP, (2017)
  • A. Neubauer, A. Shapiro, S. Yochelis, E. Capua, R. Naaman, E. Lifshitz, Y. Paltiel
         "Enhancement of near infrared light sensing using side-gate modulation"
          Sensors and Actuators A, 267, (2017)
  • L. Bar-Eyal, R. Ranjbar Choubeh, E. Cohen, I. Eisenberg, C. Tamburu, M. Dorogi, R. Unnep, MS. Appavou, R. Nevo, U. Raviv, Z. Reich, G. Garab, H. van Amerongen, Y. Paltiel, N. Keren
         "Changes in aggregation states of light-harvesting complexes as a mechanism for modulating energy transfer in desert               crust cyanobacteria"
         PNAS, 114, 9481-9486 (2017)
  • O. Westreich, M. Katz, G. Atar, Y. Paltiel, N. Sicron
         "Optical losses in p-type layers of GaN ridge waveguides in the IR region"
         App Phys Lett, 111 022103 (2017)
  • Y. Kalcheim, E. Katzir, F. Zeides, N. Katz, Y. Paltiel, O. Millo
         "Dynamic control of the vortex pinning potential in a superconductor using current injection through nanoscale patterns
          Nano Letters, 17, 2934-2939 (2017)
  • I. Eisenberg, D. Harris, Y. Levi-Kalisman, S. Yochelis, A. Shemesh, G. Ben-Nissan, M. Sharon, U. Raviv, N. Adir, N. Keren, Y. Paltiel
         "Concentration-based self-assembly of phycocyanon"
          Photosynth Res, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-017-0406-7
  • G. Koplovitz, D. Primc, O. Ben Dor, S. Yochelis, D. Rotem, D. Porath, Y. Paltiel
         "Magnetic nanoplatelet-based spin memory device operating at ambient tempratures"
         Advanced Materials, 29, 17 (2017)
  • Y. Uliel, D. Cohen-Elias, N. Sicron, I. Grimberg, N. Snapi, Y. Paltiel, M. Katz
         "InGaAs/GaAsSb type-II superlattice based photodiodes for short wave infrared detection"
          Infrared Physics & Technology, in press (2017)
  • O. Ben Dor, S. Yochelis, A. Radko, K. Vankayala, E. Capua, A. Capua, SH. Yang, LT. Baczewski, S. Parkin, R. Naaman, Y. Paltiel
         "Magnetization switching in ferromagnets by adsorbed chiral molecules without current or external magnetic field"
         Nature Communications, 8, 14567 (2017)
  • MA. Kozhushner, VL Bodenva, TV Belysheva, GN, Gerasimov, VF. Gromov, MI. Ikim, Y. Paltiel, EY. Spiridonova, LI Trakhtenberg
         "Sensory properties of oxide films with high concentration of conduction electrons"
         Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 91, 572-576 (2017)
  • E. Cohen, I. Gdor, E. Romero, S. Yochelis, R. van Grondelle, Y. Paltiel
         "Achieving exciton delocalization in quantum dot aggregates using organic linker molecules"
         J Phys Chem Lett, 8, 1014-1018 (2017)
  • O. Ben-Dor, S. Yochelis, I. Felner, Y. Paltiel
         "Unusual ZFC and FC magnetic behavior in thin Co multi-layered structure"
          J. Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 428, 357-361 (2017)
  • E. Katzir, N. Sukenik, Y. Kalcheim, H. Alpern, S. Yochelis, YA. Berlin, MA. Ratner, O. Millo, Y. Paltiel
         "Probing Molecular-Transport Properties using the Superconducting Proximity Effect"
         Small methods, (2017)
  • I. Eisenberg, F. Caycedo-Soler, D. Harris, S. Yochelis, SF. Huelga, MB. Plenio, N. Adir, N. Keren, Y. Paltiel
         "Regulating the Energy Flor in Cyanobacterial Light-Harvesting Antenna Complex"
         J. Phys. Chem. B, 121, 1240-1247 (2017)
2016
  • TV. Belysheva, MI. Ikim, AS. Il'in, PK Kashkarov, MN. Martyshov. Y. Paltiel, LI. Trakhtenberg, NP Fantina, PA Forsh
          "Features of the electrical and photoelectrical properties of nanocrystalline indium and zinc oxide films"
         Russian Journal Of Physical Chemistry B, 10 810-815, (2016)
  • H. Alpern, E. Katzir, S. Yochelis, N. Katz, Y. Paltiel and O. Millo
         "Unconventional superconductivity induced in Nb films by adsorbed chiral molecules"
         New Journal of Physics, 18 (2016)
  • O.  Ben-Dor, S.  Yochelis, I. Felner and Y. Paltiel
         "Unusual magnetic behavior in  chiral-based magnetic memory device"
         J. Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 398, 259-263 (2016)
  • M. Eckshtain-Levi, E. Capua, S. Rafaely-Abramson,S. Sarkar, Y. Gavrilov, S.P. Mathew,Y. Paltiel, Y. Levy,  L. Kronik and R. Naaman
         "Cold denaturation induces inversion of dipole and spin transfer in chiral peptide monolayers"
         Nature Communications, 7 (2016)
  • A. Neubauer, S. Yochelis, G. Mittelman, I. Eisenberg and Y.  Paltiel
         "Simple  down-conversion nano crystal coatings for enhancing silicon-solar cells efficiency"
         AIMSMaterials Science, 3 1256-1265 (2016)
  • T.A.R. Purcell, M. Galanty, S. Yochelis, Y. Paltiel and T. Seideman
         "Coupling quantum emmiters to random 2D nanoplasmonic structures"
          J. Phys. Chem. C., (2016)
2015
  • N. Livneh, M.G. Harats, S. Yochelis, Y. Paltiel and R. Rapapport
          "Efficient collection of light from colloidal quantum dots with a hybrid metal-dielectric nanoantenna"
          ACS Photonics, 2 1669-1674 (2015)
  • M. Eckstein-Levi, E. Capua, Y. Paltiel and R. Naaman
          "Hybrid sensor based on AlGaN/GaN molecular controlled device
          ACS Sensors., 1 185-189 2015
  • L. Bar-Eyal, I. Eisenberg, A. Faust, H. Raanan, R. Nevo, F. Rappaport, A. Krieger-Liszkay, P. Setif, A Thurotte, Z. Reich, A. Kaplan, I. Ohad, Y. Paltiel, N. Keren
        "An easily reversible structural change underlies mechanisms enabling desert crust cyanobacteria to survive desiccation"
        Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1847 1267-1273 (2015)
  • M. Brehm, H. Groiss, Gunther Bauer, D. Gerhsen, R.  Clarke, Y. Paltiel and Y. Yacoby
         "Atomic structure and composition distribution in wetting layers and islands of germanium grown on silicon (001)                        substrates"
        Nanotechnology, 26 48 (2015)
  • M. Galanty, S. Yochelis, L. Stern, I. Dujovne, U. Levi and Y. Paltiel
        "Extinction enhancement from self-assembled quantum dots monolayer using a simple thin film process"
        J. Phys. Chem. C, 119 44 (2015)
  • N. Peer, I, Dujovne, S. Yochelis and Y. Paltiel
        "Nanoscale charge separation using chiral molecules"
        ACS Photonics, 2 10 (2015)
  • I. Eisenberg, H. Alpern, V. Gutkin, S. Yochelis and Y. Paltiel
        "Dual mode UV/visible-IR gallium-nitride detector"
        Sensors & Actuators A,  223, 26-31 (2015)
  • A. Neubauer, S. Yochelis, Y. Amit, U. Banin and Y. Paltiel
        "Highly sensitive room temperature infrared hybrid organic-nanocrystal detector"
        Sensors and Actuators, 229, 166-171 (2015)
  • Y. Nevo, N. Peer, S. Yochelis, M. Igbaria, S. Meirovitch, O. Shoseyov and Y. Paltiel
        "Nano bio optically tuned composite nanocrystalline cellulose films"
        RSC Adv., 5, 7713-7719 (2015)
  • C.H. Lu, W. Guo, X.J. Qi, A. Neubauer, Y. Paltiel, I. Willner
        "Hemin-G-quadruplex-crosslinked poly-N-isopropylacrylamide hydrogel: a catalytic matrix for the deposition of                            conductive polyaniline"
        Chemical Science 11 (2015)
  • O. Westreich, M. Katz, Y. Paltiel, O. Ternyak and N. Sicron
        "Low propagation loss in GaN/AlGaN-based ridge waveguides"
        Phys. Status Solidi A 1-6 (2015)
2014
  • M. G. Harats, N. Livneh, S. Yochelis, Y. Paltiel and R. Rapaport
        "Highly directional emission of photons from nanocrystal quantum dots positioned on circular plasmonic lens antennas"
        QELS_Fundamental Science (2014)
  • E. Katzir, S. Yochelis, F. Zeides, N. Katz, S. Beherns, Y. Kalcheim, O. Millo and Y. Paltiel
        "Increasing the critical temperature of Nb films by chemically linking magnetic nanoparticles using organic molecules"
        EPL, 108, 37006 (2014)
  • O. Ben-Dor, N. Morali, S. Yochelis, L.T. Baczewski and Y. Paltiel
        "Local light-induced magnetization using nanodots and chiral molecules"
        Nano Lett., 14 6042-6049 (2014)
  • E. Cohen, M. Gruber, E. Romero, S. Yochelis, R. van Grondelle and Y. Paltiel
        "Properties of self-assembled hybrid organic/inorganic molecule/quantum dot multilayered structures"
        J. Phys. Chem. C., 118 44 (2014)
  • A. Albercht, G. Koplovitz, A. Retzker, F. Jelezko, D. Porath, Y. Nevo, O. Shoseyov, Y. Paltiel and M.B. Plenio
        "Self-assembling hybrid diamond-biological quantum devices"
        New J. Phys. 16 093002 (2014)
  • M. G. Harats, N. Livneh, G. Zaiats, S. Yochelis, Y. Paltiel, E. Lifshitz and R. Rapaport
        "Full spectral and angular characterization of highly directional emission from nanocrystal quantum dots positioned on                circular plasmonic lenses"
        Nano Lett., (2014)
  • E. Katzir, S. Yochelis, Y. Paltiel, S. Azoubel, A. Shimoni, S. Magdassi
        "Tunable inkjet printed hybrid carbon nanotubes/nanocrystals light sensor"
        Sensors and Actuators B, 196, 112-116 (2014)
  • I. Eisenberg, S. Yochelis, R. Ben-Harosh, L. David, A. Faust, N. Even-Dar, H. Taha, N.M. Haegel, N. Adir, N. Keren and Y. Paltiel
        "Room temperature biological quantum walk in phycocyanin nanowires"
        PCCP, DOI: 10.1039/c4cp00345d (2014)
2013
  • O. Ben-Dor, S. Yochelis, S. P. Mathew, R. Naaman, and Y. Paltiel
        "A chiral-based magnetic memory device without a permanent magnet"
        Nature Communications, 4, 2256 (2013)
  • S. Vortman, O. Ben-Dor, S. Yochelis, Y. Amit, and Y. Paltiel
        "Mapping the energy band structure of nanocrystal monolayers under ambient conditions"
        J. Phys. Chem. C, (2013)
  • Y. C. Zohar, S. Yochelis, K. A. Dahmen, G. Jung and Y. Paltiel
        "Controlling avalanche criticality in 2D nano arrays"
        Scientific Reports, 3, 1845 (2013)
  • Y. Yacoby, N. Elfassy, S. K. Ray, R. K. Singha, S. Das, E. Cohen, S. Yochelis, R. Clarke and Y. Paltiel
        "Morphology and growth of capped Ge/Si quantum dots"
        J Nanopart Res 15:1608 (2013)
2012
  • O. Koslovsky, S. Yochelis, N. Livneh, M. G. Haratzs, R. Rapaport and Y. Paltiel
        "Simple Method for Surface Adsorption of Semiconductor Nanocrystals with Nanometric Resolution"
        Journal of Nanomaterials 2012, 938495 (2012)
  • A. Neubauer, S. Yochelis, I. Popov, A. Ben Hur, K. Gradkowski, U. Banin and Y. Paltiel
        "Local cathode luminescence resonant peak in hybrid organic nanocrystal systems"
        J. Phys. Chem. C. 116 29 (2012)
  • S. Yochelis, E. Katzir, Y. Kalcheim, V. Gutkin, O. Millo and Y. Paltiel
        "Formation of Au-Silane Bonds"
        Journal of Nanotechnology 2012, 903761 (2012)
  • E. Katzir, S. Yochelis, F. Zeides, N. Katz, Y. Kalcheim, O. Millo, G. Leitus, Y. Mysodeyov, BY. Shapiro, R. Naaman and Y. Paltiel
        "Increased Superconducting Transition Temperature of a Niobium Thin Film Proximity Coupled to Gold Nanoparticles                  Using Linking Organic Molecules"
        Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 107004 (2012)
  • I. Schwarz, M. G. Harats, N. Livneh, S. Yochelis, A. Strauss, A. Zimran, U. Banin, Y. Paltiel and R. Rapaport
        "Theory and experiments of Bragg cavity modes in passive and active metallic nanoslit array devices"
        Journal of the Optical Society of America B 29, 2 A127-A137 (2012)
2011
  • E. Cohen, N. Elfassy, G. Koplovitz, S. Yochelis, S. Shusterman, D. Kumah, R. Clarke, Y. Yacoby and Y. Paltiel
       "Surface X-Ray Diffraction Results on the III-V Droplet Heteroepitaxy Growth Process for Quantum Dots: Recent
        Understanding and Open Questions"
       Sensors 11 10624-10637 (2011)
  • E. Cohen, S. Yochelis, O. Westreich, S. Shusterman, D. Kumah, R. Clarke, Y. Yacoby and Y. Paltiel
        "Structure of droplet-epitaxy-grown InAs/GaAs quantum dots"
        Appl. Phys. Lett. 98 243115 (2011)
  • E. Katzir, Y. Paltiel, S. Yochelis
        "Using the peak effect to pick the good organic coupler"
        Appl. Phys. Lett. 98 223306 (2011)
  • N. Livneh, A. Strauss, I. Schwarz, I. Rosenberg, A. Zimran, S. Yochelis, G. Chen, U. Banin, Y. Paltiel  and R. Rapaport
        "Highly Directional Emission and Photon Beaming from Nanocrystal Quantum Dots Embedded in Metallic Nanoslit Arrays"
        Nano Lett. 11, 1630 (2011)
2010 and earlier
  • Y. Paltiel, G. Jung, T. Aqua, D. Mocatta, U. Banin,and  R. Naaman
        "Collective Effects in Charge Transfer whithin a Hybrid Organic-Inorganic System "
        Physical Review Letters 104, 016804 (2010).
  • S. Shusterman, A Reizmann, and Y. Paltiel 
        "Narrow Gap Droplets Heteroepitaxial Nanodots Growth Mode"
        Infrared physics and technology 52, 229-234(2009).
  • S. Shusterman, A. Raizman, A. Sher, Y. Paltiel, A. Schwarzman, O. Azriel, A. Boag, Y. Rosenwaks and P. L. Galindo
        "Two Dimensional Imaging of Strain and Composition Induced Confinement Potential   in III-V Quantum Dots"
        Euro Physics Let. (2009).
  • D. P. Kumah, S. Shusterman, Y. Paltiel, Y. Yacoby, R. Clark.
    "Droplet epitaxy: the lowdown on quantum dot formation"
    Nature nanotechnology 4 835 (2009).
  • T. Aqua ,Y. Paltiel, R. Naaman , A. Aharoni,  and U. Banin
    "Hybrid nanocrystals-organic-semiconductor light sensor".
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 92 223112 (2008).
  • Boucherif, D. Ban, H. Luo, E. Dupont, H.C.Liu, Z. R.Wasilewski, and Y. Paltiel
    "InAsSb based mid-infrared optical upconversion device operable at thermoelectric  temperatures"
    Electronics Letters 44 (2008).
  • Y. Sharabani, Y. Paltiel, A. Sher, and A. Zussman
    "InAsSb/ GaSb heterostructure based mid wavelength infrared detector for high  temperature operations "
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 232106 (2007).
  • Ben Simon, Y. Paltiel, G. Jung, and H. Schneider
    "Quantum Gunn Effect as a Source of Noise in Quantum Wells"
    Phys. Rev. B 76, 235308 (2007).
  • S. Shusterman, A. Raizman, A. Sher, Y. Paltiel, A. Schwarzman, E. Lepkifker  and Y. Rosenwaks
    "Nanoscale Mapping of Strain and Composition in Quantum Dots Using Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy" 
    Nano Lett.; 7(7); 2089-2093 (2007).
  • P. V. V. Jayaweera, S. G. Matsik, and A. G. U. Perera, Y. Paltiel, Ariel Sher, Arie Raizman, H. Luo, and H. C. Liu
    "GaSb homojunctions for Far-IR (THz) Detection"
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 90 111109 (2007)
  • D.Ban, H. Luo, H.C.Liu, Z.R.Wasilewski, M. Buchanan, Y. Paltiel, A. Raizman, and A. Sher
    "Wafer-fused mid-infrared optical up-converter based on MOCVD grown InSb"
    Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 5970 I
  • Y. Paltiel, O. Neumann, R. Naaman , A. Aharoni,  and U. Banin
    "Self-assembling of InAs nanocrystals on GaAs- The effect of electronic coupling and  embedded gold nanoparticles on the photoluminescence"
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 89 1 (2006)
  • Z. G. Hu , A. G. U. Perera, M. Zhu, Y. Paltiel, A. Raizman, and A. Sher
    "Longitudinal-optical phonon hole plasmon coupled modes in heavily doped  p-type GaSb:Zn epitaxial films"
    European Physical Journal B 50, 403-410 (2006).
  • S. Shusterman, Y. Paltiel, A. Sher and Y. Rosenwaks
    "High-density nanometer-scale InSb dots formation using MOVPE droplets heteroepitaxial growth"
    Journal of Crystal growth   291 , 363-369 (2006).
  • Y. Paltiel, A. Sher, A. Raizman, D. Majer, A. Arbel, A. Feingold, J. Levy and R.  Naaman
    "Uncooled infrared detector using a thin InAsSb layer acting as a gate on a GaAs Field  Effect Transistor"
    IEEE sensors 6 , 1195-1199 (2006).
  • G. Jung, Y. Paltiel, E. Zeldov, Y. Myasoedov, M. L. Rappaport, M. J.  Higgins, and S. Bhattacharya
    "Edge contamination effects in the dynamics of vortex matter in superconductors,  memory effects and excess flux-flow noise"
    Invited paper, Springer Lect. Notes Phys. 688, 109-128 (2006).
  • Y. Paltiel, N. Snapi and G. Jung 
    "Non-Gaussian dark current noise in a p-type QWIP"
    Appl. Phys. Lett., 87, 231103 (2005).
  •  Z. G. Hu, A. G. U. Perera, Y. Paltiel and A. Sher
    "Hole concentration dependence of the absorption coefficient in p-type GaSb:Zn  epitaxial films at THz frequency regions"
    J Appl. Phys. 98 023511 (2005)
  • D. Ban, H. Luo, H. C. Liu, Z. R. Wasilewski, Y. Paltiel, A. Raizman and A. Sher
    "Wafer-fused mid-infrared optical up-converter based on InSb"
    Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 201103 (2005)
  • Y. Paltiel, A. Zussman, N. Snapi and A. Sher, G. Jung, K. Cohen, E. Benory and E. Weiss
        "Voltage tunability of High Performance Zn Doped p-type QWIP Grown by MOVPE"
        Infrared Phys. & Tech. October (2005)

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