摘要:
Opto-electronic light emitting device (30) epitaxially grown in III-V technology. It consists of a light emitting element (10), such as a diode laser or a LED, arranged back-to-back on a pn-junction diode (35), e.g., a PIN diode structure. A common middle layer (33) is transparent for the emitted wavelength and allows strong optical coupling (of at least 50 %) of the spontaneous isotropic radiation emitted by the light emitting element (10) to the diode (35) where the light is absorbed and recuperated for feedback to the light emitting element. The diode can be operated either as a photodiode or as a solar cell (by applying either a reverse- or a forward-bias voltage) resulting in regaining of either current or energy.
摘要:
A method for the fabrication of self-aligned MESFET structures (30) with a recessed refractory submicron gate. After channel formation (32) on a SI substrate (31), which may consist of a III-V compound semiconductor such as GaAs, with subsequent annealing the refractory gate (33G) is deposited and patterned. This is followed by the overgrowth of a highly doped contact layer of e.g. GaAs using MOCVD or MBE processes resulting in poly-crystalline material over the gate "mask" and in mono-crystalline material (34S, 34D) on exposed semiconductor surfaces. Next, the poly-crystalline material is removed in a selective etch process, this step being followed by the deposition of source and drain electrodes (35S, 35D). In order to further improve process reliability, insulating sidewalls (43-43) can be provided at the vertical edges of the gate (33G) to avoid source-gate and drain-gate shorts.
摘要:
Integrated semiconductor structure with optically coupled laser diode (11) and photodiode (12A), both devices having etched, vertical facets (16A, 21). The photodiode has a spatially non-uniform sensitivity profile with respect to the incident light beam (18A) emitted by the laser. This is due to the varying distance from the laser facet and/or to variations in the angle of incidence and results in photocurrents produced by the photodiode that depend on the intensity distribution of the light beam. The spatially non-uniform sensitivity profile allows the measurement of the far-field intensity distribution of the laser and thus on-wafer screening of lasers with respect to their mode-stability.
摘要:
The waveguide comprises a transparent body (13) having a very sharp point at one end and being coated with a first opaque layer (14) such as metal. Said opaque layer (14) carries a layer (15) of an optically transparent material which, in turn, is covered by a second opaque layer (16). The apex of the point is removed so as to expose said transparent body (13) in a first aperture (18) and to expose said transparent layer (15) in a second aperture 17, said first aperture occupying an area below 0,01µm 2 . Light entering the transparent body (13) from its remote end is shone onto an object (4), the reflected light enters said second aperture (17) and is guided to a light detector (19) for further processing.