摘要:
A system is disclosed for providing electrical power responsive to solar energy. The system includes a Si cell, an AlGaAs cell, and a Ge cell. The Si cell is for providing electrical power responsive to solar energy within a first frequency range. The AlGaAs cell is coupled to a first side of the Si cell, and is for providing electrical power responsive to solar energy within a second frequency range. The Ge cell is coupled to a second side of the Si cell, and the Ge cell provides electrical power responsive to solar energy within a third frequency range.
摘要:
A SiGe or Ge structure comprises a substrate and a SiGe or Ge layer that is formed on a first surface of the substrate. A silicidation or germanide layer is formed on a second surface of the substrate so to increase the tensile strain of the SiGe or Ge layer on the first surface.
摘要:
A phototransistor includes an emitter and a base that comprises Ge. A collector comprises Si. The base, emitter, and collector form at least one Si/Ge heterojunction allowing the unpinning of Fermi energy level (EF) of the phototransistor.
摘要:
The light-guiding structure includes a waveguide structure that comprises a substrate and a low refractive index underclad material. The waveguide structure is oxidized to form an oxidized layer on a surface of the waveguide structure. The oxidized layer is isotropically etched after the reaction-limited oxidation regime is approaching the diffusion-limited regime and repeatedly oxidized and etched so that the waveguide structure is continuously oxidized in the reaction-limited regime, reducing the overall time of oxidation and volume of oxidized material so that the waveguide structure has its sidewall roughness reduced efficiently enabling high transmission rates of guided light.
摘要:
An optical grating is disposed on a waveguide to redirect light from the interior of the waveguide through the opposite side of the waveguide from the grating. In one embodiment the waveguide, the grating, and an optical sensor are combined in a single monolithic structure. In another embodiment, an absorbing layer is directly connected to the waveguide in the region of the grating. In still another embodiment, efficiency of the grating is improved by having a high index contrast between the refractive index of the grating and the refractive index of the cladding disposed over the grating, and by having an appropriately sized discontinuity in the grating.
摘要:
An optical device includes at least two photonic bandgap crystal (PBG) stacks that are each comprised of alternating layers of high and low index materials. A defect region is formed in a cavity region between the at least two photonic bandgap crystal stacks so as to provide the properties needed to reflect light received by the optical device.
摘要:
A photodetector device includes a plurality of Ge epilayers that are grown on a substrate and annealed in a defined temperature range. The Ge epilayers form a tensile strained Ge layer that allows the photodetector device to operate efficiently in the C-band and L-band.
摘要:
In a method of forming a photonic device, a first silicon electrode is formed, and then a germanium active layer is formed on the first silicon electrode while including n-type dopant atoms in the germanium layer, during formation of the layer, to produce a background electrical dopant concentration that is greater than an intrinsic dopant concentration of germanium. A second silicon electrode is then formed on a surface of the germanium active layer. The formed germanium active layer is doped with additional dopant for supporting an electrically-pumped guided mode as a laser gain medium with an electrically-activated n-type electrical dopant concentration that is greater than the background dopant concentration to overcome electrical losses of the photonic device.
摘要:
A laser structure includes at least one active layer having doped Ge so as to produce light emissions at approximately 1550 nm from the direct band gap of Ge. A first confinement structure is positioned on a top region of the at least one active layer. A second confinement structure is positioned on a bottom region the at least one active layer.
摘要:
A fabrication method and materials produce high quality aperiodic photonic structures. Light emission can be activated by thermal annealing post growth treatments when thin film layers of SiO2 and SiNx or Si-rich oxide are used. From these aperiodic structures, that can be obtained in different vertical and planar device geometries, the presence of aperiodic order in a photonic device provides strong group velocity reduction (slow photons), enhanced light-matter interaction, light emission enhancement, gain enhancement, and/or nonlinear optical properties enhancement.
摘要翻译:制造方法和材料产生高质量的非周期光子结构。 当使用SiO 2和SiN x 3或富Si氧化物的薄膜层时,可以通过生长后处理进行热退火来激发发光。 从这些非周期结构可以在不同的垂直和平面器件几何形状中获得,光子器件中非周期性顺序的存在提供了强的组速度降低(慢光子),增强的光物质相互作用,光发射增强,增益增强和 /或非线性光学性能增强。