Abstract:
Provided is an optical device having a strained buried channel area. The optical device includes: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductive type; a gate insulating layer formed on the semiconductor substrate; a gate of a second conductive type opposite to the first conductive type, formed on the gate insulating layer; a high density dopant diffusion area formed in the semiconductor substrate under the gate and doped with a first conductive type dopant having a higher density than the semiconductor substrate; a strained buried channel area formed of a semiconductor material having a different lattice parameter from a material of which the semiconductor substrate is formed and extending between the gate insulating layer and the semiconductor substrate to contact the high density dopant diffusion area; and a semiconductor cap layer formed between the gate insulating layer and the strained buried channel area.
Abstract:
An optical filter module for wavelength multiplexing and demultiplexing and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The optical filter module for wavelength multiplexing and demultiplexing includes: at least one or more input waveguides; an input-stage star coupler in the form of a slab waveguide connected to the input waveguides; array waveguide which is connected to the input-stage star coupler and in which a plurality of individual waveguides, each of which has an optical path having a predetermined length different to those of the other waveguides and has a heterogeneous waveguide interval formed of a material having a different refraction index from that of a core of the waveguides, are sequentially arranged; an output-stage star coupler in the form of a slab waveguide connected to the array waveguides; and at least one or more output waveguides connected to the output-stage star coupler. According to the optical filter module and the method of manufacturing the same, heterogeneous waveguide intervals having core materials different from those of conventional waveguides are introduced in predetermined areas of array waveguides, thereby reducing polarized light and temperature dependency and at the same time effectively removing optical coupling loss, which can occur at both ends of a heterogeneous waveguide interval, without an additional process of forming waveguides.
Abstract:
Provided is a high-speed ring optical modulator based on a silicon semiconductor, having increased optical modulation speed. The high-speed ring optical modulator includes a ring optical waveguide including a portion in which the refractive index varies, that is, a refractive index variation portion, and an optical waveguide having a constant refractive index. The refractive index variation portion comprises a bipolar transistor. Thus carriers can be supplied to and discharged from the refractive index variation portion, through which light is transmitted, at high speed, and thus the optical modulation speed can be increased.
Abstract:
A current-jump-control circuit including an abrupt metal-insulator phase transition device is proposed, and includes a source, the abrupt metal-insulator phase transition device and a resistive element. The abrupt metal-insulator phase transition device includes first and second electrodes connected to the source, and shows an abrupt metal-insulator phase transition characteristic of a current jump when an electric field is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode. The resistive element is connected between the source and the abrupt metal-insulator phase transition device to control a jump current flowing through the abrupt metal-insulator phase transition device. According to the above current control circuit, the abrupt metal-insulator phase transition device can be prevented from being failed due to a large amount of current and thus the current-jump-control circuit can be applied in various application fields.