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Optoelectronic devices that use very thin single-crystalline inorganic semiconductor films as phonon-absorbing layers in combination with non-lattice optical cavities are provided.
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Photodetectors based on hydrogen-doped, single-crystalline germanium, including waveguide integrated photodetectors for photonic chip applications are provided. Hydrogen doping provides the single-crystalline germanium with increased radiation absorption in the near infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, including at wavelengths of 1550 nm and above.
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Devices for detecting electrical activity in electrically active biological tissues and methods for using the devices are provided. The devices include an electrode array that is configured for implantation on electrically active biological tissue. The electrode array comprises a plurality of electrode sites comprising one or more layers of transparent, electrically conductive graphene disposed on a transparent substrate.
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Stretchable high frequency transmission lines and high-frequency filters comprising the transmission lines are provided. The transmission lines provide low power loss, even at microwave and millimeter wave frequencies. The transmission lines are thin and flexible and can be stretched without a significant degradation of their scattering parameters. As a result, the transmission lines have applications as interconnects in stretchable and flexible integrated circuits (IC) and circuit device components, such as flexible transistors and flexible diodes.
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Boron-doped diamond and methods for making it are provided. The doped diamond is made using an ultra-thin film of heavily boron-doped silicon as a dopant carrying material in a low temperature thermal diffusion doping process.
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Semiconductor heterojunction structures comprising lattice mismatched, single-crystalline semiconductor materials and methods of fabricating the heterojunction structures are provided. The heterojunction structures comprise at least one three-layer junction comprising two layers of single-crystalline semiconductor and a current tunneling layer sandwiched between and separating the two layers of single-crystalline semiconductor material. Also provided are devices incorporating the heterojunction structures, methods of making the devices and method of using the devices.
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Light-emitting devices having a multiple quantum well (MQW) pin diode structure are provided. The light-emitting devices include a multilayered p-type contact composed of a heavily p-type doped hole injection layer and a thin p-type group III-nitride layer. The materials of the hole injection layer and the p-type group III-nitride layer are separated by a layer of a material that allows current tunneling through the heterogeneous junction formed between the lattice mismatched materials.
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Light-emitting devices having a multiple quantum well (MQW) pin diode structure and methods of making and using the devices are provided. The light-emitting devices include: a tunneling heterojunction as a hole injector; an n-type contact; and a light-emitting active region disposed between the tunneling heterojunction and the n-type contact. The tunneling heterojunction facilitates interband tunneling hole injection under bias, whereby electrons in the valence band of a p-type group III-nitride semiconductor tunnel directly into the conduction band of the n-type doped semiconductor, resulting in the generation of holes in the p-type group III-nitride.
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Radiation detectors based on high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) are provided. Methods for detecting ultraviolet radiation using the HEMTs are also provided. The transistors are constructed from an intrinsic high bandgap semiconductor material with a built-in polarization field sandwiched between graphene and a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG).
Abstract:
Light-emitting devices having a multiple quantum well (MQW) pin diode structure are provided. The light-emitting devices include a multilayered p-type contact composed of a heavily p-type doped hole injection layer and a thin p-type group III-nitride layer. The materials of the hole injection layer and the p-type group III-nitride layer are separated by a layer of a material that allows current tunneling through the heterogeneous junction formed between the lattice mismatched materials.