Abstract:
Provided are a superluminescent diode with a high optical power and a broad wavelength band, and a method of fabricating the same. The superluminescent diode includes: at least one high optical confinement factor (HOCF) region; and at least one low optical confinement factor (LOCF) region having a lower optical confinement factor than the HOCF region. The method includes obtaining a difference of optical confinement factors in the HOCF region and the LOCF region through a selective area growth method, the selective area growth method using a deposition thicknesses difference of thin layers according to a width difference of openings that expose a substrate.
Abstract:
Provided are a gas sensing apparatus and a gas sensing method using the apparatus. The gas sensing apparatus includes a detection chamber, a light source, a light sensor, a gas source, and a controller. The light source is disposed at one end of the detection chamber, and a light sensor is disposed at the other end of the detection chamber. The gas source provides gas to the detection chamber. The controller controls the light source and the light sensor. The light source includes a laser supplying laser light, and a light scanner reflecting and scanning the laser light in the detection chamber. The controller includes a phase sensitive detector electrically connected to the light sensor.
Abstract:
Provided is a method of growing a pure germanium (Ge) thin film with low threading dislocation density using reduced pressure chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD), which includes growing a Ge thin film on a silicon (Si) substrate at a low temperature, performing real-time annealing for a short period of time, and growing the annealed Ge thin film at a high temperature. The grown Ge single crystal thin film can overcome conventional problems of generation of a Si—Ge layer due to Si diffusion, and propagation of misfit dislocation to a high-temperature Ge thin film.
Abstract:
Provided are a hybrid laser diode for single mode operation, and a method for manufacturing the hybrid laser diode. The hybrid laser diode includes a silicon layer, an active pattern disposed on the silicon layer, and a bonding layer disposed between the silicon layer and the active pattern. Here, the bonding layer includes diffraction patterns constituting a Bragg grating.
Abstract:
Provided is a method of fabricating a semiconductor optical device for use in a subscriber or a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical communication system, in which a laser diode (LD) and a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) are integrated in a single active layer. The laser diode (LD) and the semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) are optically connected to each other, and electrically insulated from each other by ion injection, whereby light generated from the LD is amplified by the SOA to provide low oscillation start current and high intensity of output light when current is individually injected through each electrode.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a photodetector having two or more avalanche-gain layered structures and multi-terminals. The avalanche photodetector includes an emitter light absorption layer structure located between a collector layer and an emitter layer (top contact layer) stacked on a substrate. The photodetector further comprises multiple avalanche-gain layered structures consisting of a charge layer, a multiplication layer and a contact layer between the light absorption layer and said collector layer.
Abstract:
The present invention is to solve the problems caused in various methods used to improve the performance of the device by improvement of conventional base layer. The present invention discloses a hot electron device which can improve the performance of the device such as the improvement in the current density and decrease in transition time by reducing the dispersion phenomenon by introducing indium arsenide layer having v-shape conduction band due to the graded composition as the base layer of hetero structure hot electron device (HET).In addition, the present invention discloses a resonant tunneling hot electron device which is constructed by adding an emitter electron projection layer to the hot electron device of the present invention so that the Fermi energy and alignment can occur due to the stark shift and the projection of hot electron to the base region can occur through the Fermi energy and alignment.
Abstract:
Provided is a lithium secondary battery including a discharge unit capable of delaying or preventing a battery explosion. The lithium secondary battery includes a discharge unit disposed parallel to a battery body. The discharge unit includes a first electrode connected to a positive electrode of the battery body, a second electrode connected to a negative electrode of the battery body, and a discharge material film, disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, inducing a abrupt discharge above a predetermined temperature. The discharge material film, e.g., a abrupt metal-insulator transition (MIT) material film can induce a abrupt discharge, thereby preventing or delaying a battery explosion.
Abstract:
Provided is a method of fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a first layer, a second layer, an ion implantation layer between the first and second layers, and an anti-oxidation layer on the second layer, and performing a heat treating process to form an insulating layer between the first and second layers while preventing loss of the second layer using the anti-oxidation layer.
Abstract:
Provided are a waveguide structure and an arrayed waveguide grating structure. The arrayed waveguide grating structure includes an input star coupler, an output star coupler, and a plurality of arrayed waveguides optically connecting the input star coupler and the output star coupler. Each of the arrayed waveguides includes at least one section having a high confinement factor and at least two sections having a relatively low confinement factor. The sections of the arrayed waveguides having a high confinement factor have the same structure.