摘要:
SiGe quantum wells where the well material has a lowest conduction band energy minimum at k=0 (the Γ point of the first Brillouin zone) are provided. Quantum well structures that satisfy this condition have “Kane-like” bands at and near k=0 which can provide physical effects useful for various device applications, especially optical modulators. In the Si1-xGex material system, this condition on the band structure is satisfied for x greater than about 0.7. The quantum well barrier composition may or may not have Kane-like bands. Optical modulators and/or detectors according to the invention are suitable for inclusion in waveguide-based optical interconnects. Such interconnects can be on-chip interconnects or chip to chip interconnects.
摘要:
An optical detector including a substrate; an island of detector material formed on the substrate, the island being a stack extending up from the substrate of alternating layers of first and second semiconductor materials, the island having a horizontally oriented top end, a vertically oriented first sidewall, and vertically oriented second sidewall that is opposite the first sidewall, the island having a first doped region extending into the island through first sidewall and forming a first conductive region that extends down into the island of detector material, the island also having a second doped region extending into the island through the second sidewall and forming a second conductive region that extends down into island of the detector material, the first and second conductive regions each having a top end that is part of the top end of the island; a first electrical connection to the top end of the first conductive region; and a second electrical connection to the top end of the second conductive region.
摘要:
This invention teaches two new families of Si-based Ge/SnxGe1-x heterodiode and multiple quantum well (MQW) photonic devices: (1) band-to-band photodetectors, lasers, emitters, amplifiers and modulators for the 1.5 to 12 μm wavelength range; (2) intersubband photodetectors, lasers, emitters and modulators for 12 to 100 μm operation. The bipolar band-to-band devices have applications within the 1.5-2.2, 3-5 and 8-to-12 μm bands. The unipolar intersubband group has longwave infrared and terahertz applications. All strained-layer devices are grown a relaxed SnySizGe1-y-z buffer layer—a virtual substrate (VS) grown directly upon a silicon wafer by unique LT UHV-CVD. The VS provides a low-defect atomic template for subsequent heteroepitaxy and is an essential enabling technique for engineering tensile and compressive strain within the Ge/SnxGe1-x MQW by selecting the VS lattice parameter to be approx midway between the layer lattices.
摘要翻译:本发明教导了两个新的基于Si的Ge / Sn x Ge 1-x N异质二极管和多量子阱(MQW)光子器件的新族:(1)带 - 波段光电探测器,激光器,发射器,放大器和调制器,用于1.5至12 mum波长范围; (2)子带间光电检测器,激光器,发射器和调制器,用于12至100个操作。 双极性带对频带器件具有1.5-2.2,3-5和8到12个母带的应用。 单极子带组具有长波红外和太赫兹应用。 所有的应变层器件都生长在一个松弛的Sn>> Ge 1 1> buffer buffer layer upon upon upon upon upon upon upon upon upon upon upon upon upon upon 通过独特的LT UHV-CVD的硅晶片。 VS提供了用于随后的异质外延的低缺陷原子模板,并且是用于通过以下方式在Ge / Sn x Ge 1-x MQW内设计拉伸和压缩应变的必需的使能技术: 选择VS晶格参数在层格之间大约中间。
摘要:
A semiconductor substrate, suitable for epitaxial growth thereon, comprising a plurality of layers of material. The interfaces between layers act as reflectors of electromagnetic radiation. The reflectors may be used in, for example, resonant cavities in which may be located, for example, multi-quantum well detectors, the efficiency of said detectors being increased by virtue of the enhanced electric field associated with resonance in the cavity.
摘要:
A photodetector which can be operated in two wavelength ranges and is comprised of two detectors (A, B) arranged one on top of the other. A Si Schottky diode forms detector A which absorbs light in a region .lambda.
摘要:
There is provided an optical semiconductor device, including a first semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer formed on the first semiconductor layer, the first insulating layer having a different index of refraction from that of the first semiconductor layer, a highly doped, second semiconductor layer formed on the first insulating layer, a third semiconductor layer formed on the second semiconductor layer, a device isolation region having a depth starting at an upper surface of the third semiconductor layer and terminating at an upper surface of the first insulating layer, the device isolation region defining a device formation region therein, the device formation region being formed with a recess starting at an upper surface of the third semiconductor layer and terminating at an upper surface of the second semiconductor layer, a second insulating layer covering an inner sidewall of the recess therewith, a multi-layered structure formed within the recess, the multi-layered structure having at least a quantum well layer and a contact layer, a connection region having a depth starting at an upper surface of the third semiconductor layer and terminating at an upper surface of the second semiconductor layer, a first electrode formed on the connection region, a second electrode formed on the contact layer, and a light-impermeable region having a depth starting at an upper surface of the third semiconductor layer and terminating at an upper surface of the first insulating layer, the light-impermeable region being formed outside the recess. The optical semiconductor device can be fabricated in a planar structure, and has an improved photoelectric transfer efficiency. The optical semiconductor device makes it possible to integrate a light-emitting device and a light-receiving device on a common chip with the devices being optically insulated from each other.
摘要:
Disclosed is a semiconductor device, which is used as an optical detector and has: a photodiode section which has a first silicon layer, a light-absorbing layer and a second silicon layer which are in turn layered on a silicon substrate; wherein the light-absorbing layer is formed as a single silicon-germanium epitaxial layer and the single silicon-germanium epitaxial layer has a germanium concentration distribution which provides germanium concentrations of zero at its interfaces to the first silicon layer and the second silicon layer and provides a triangle-shaped concentration profile that a peak concentration value is provided in the middle of the single silicon-germanium epitaxial layer.
摘要:
To selectively grow a P type silicon layer and a Si/Ge.sub.x Si.sub.1-x superlattice layer under low temperature conditions in the area encircled with a groove, at least the side walls of which consist of silicon oxide film, which is formed in the silicon substrate. Thereby, the leak at the side of the superlattice layer can be reduced. Furthermore, by burying a metal film in the groove, the loss of light at the side of the superlattice layer can be suppressed to the minimum. Thus a light receiver having silicon/germanium silicon-mixed-crystal layer is stably formed in a silicon semiconductor substrate and optical absorption efficiency can be improved.
摘要:
A quantum bridge structure including wires of a semiconductor material such as silicon which are formed by selectively etching a superlattice of alternating layers of at least two semiconductor materials. The quantum bridge is useful as a photo emission device, a photo detector device, and a chemical sensor. The wires exhibit improved electrical conduction properties due to decreased Coulomb scattering.
摘要:
The superlattice type semiconductor material has a multilayered structure of first layers of semiconductor containing impurities and having a thickness thinner than electron or hole wavelength and second layers of semiconductor free from impurities or insulator having such a thickness that electrons or holes may penetrate by tunneling effect, the first and second layers being alternately piled. Electrons or holes distribute uniformly over the entire of the multilayered structure to show a property of uniform semiconductor material.