摘要:
A semiconductor device having a plurality of laminated semiconductor layers in which a current flows in the direction of lamination. A superlattice layer is formed in at least one of the layers and the potential of the quantum well of the superlattice layer is lower than the potential of the semiconductor layer in which the superlattice layer is formed. The potential of the barrier of the superlattice layer is higher than the potential of the semiconductor layer in which said superlattice layer is formed.
摘要:
In a multibeam emitting device provided with a plurality of semiconductive light-emitting elements monolithically formed on a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor light-emitting elements are formed so that the directions of emission of the lights emitted from the elements differ from one another.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser device wherein a depletion layer is formed in a laser activation layer by biasing the laser device and a third terminal controls an injection current flowing between first and second terminals of the device.
摘要:
There is disclosed a semiconductor laser having a super lattice structure near an active layer, in which the super lattice structure consists of at least two types of materials which have different bandgaps, the materials are regularly and alternately arranged, and thickness of adjacent layers of the materials change such that a ratio of the thicknesses changes within the super lattice structure toward an active layer.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser comprises a plurality of lasers provided in the form of an array, the lasers being monolithically formed, a plurality of photodetector elements being monolithically formed, a plurality of first separating portions for separating the lasers and the photodetector elements from each other, and at least one second separating portion for separating the plurality of lasers from one another and the plurality of photodetector elements from one another.
摘要:
A semiconductor laser array includes plural semiconductor laser elements each emitting light from two end faces constituting resonant planes and monolithically formed on a semiconductor substrate, in which the mutual angle of the beams emerging from one end of semiconductor lasers is different from that from the other end and in which the beam angle is selected as a non-zero finite value at least one end.
摘要:
A semiconductor device is constructed with a monocrystalline semiconductor layer laminated in a strip-pattern on a substrate, and amorphous or polycrystalline semiconductor layer formed on the substrate in a manner to encompass the monocrystalline semiconductor layers. The monocrystalline semiconductor layer comprises a plurality of layers including a laser active layer.
摘要:
An image sensor includes a pixel array with a plurality of pixels, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes: a photoelectric conversion unit; and a waveguide structure in which a side face of a substance that has a higher refractive index than a refractive index of a plurality of insulation films is surrounded by the plurality of insulation films so that light is guided to the photoelectric conversion unit, and wherein an insulation film that surrounds a region where the light is concentrated of the side face of the substance has the lowest refractive index among the plurality of insulation films.
摘要:
An optical semiconductor device includes a substrate and an active region formed on the substrate. The active region includes a plurality of quantum well layers containing at least one tensile-strained well layer, and the plurality of quantum well layers include a plurality of quantum well layers whose band gaps are different from each other. Such an active region makes it possible to expand a wavelength range over which TE-mode and TM-mode gains balance with each other or are approximately equal to each other.
摘要:
A semiconductor device has a substrate composed of a semiconductor which has one of sphalerite and diamond crystal structures. The substrate has a plane orientation inclined at 0.5.degree. to 15.degree. with respect to one of {111} and {110} planes indicated by Miller indices. A first semiconductor layer is formed on the substrate. The first semiconductor layer has a sawtooth-shaped first periodic structure consisting of one of the {111} and {110} planes indicated by the Miller indices and at least one plane indicated by another index. A second semiconductor layer is formed on the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer has a second periodic structure having a phase shifted from a phase of the first periodic structure.