Author Affiliations
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1 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
2 Microelectronics-Photonics Program, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Taiwan Chung-Cheng University, Ming-Hsiung, Chiayi 62102, China
4 Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
5 Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
6 Department of Electrical Engineering and Physics, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 18766, USA
7 Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
8 School of Electrical, Energy and Computer Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA
9 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02125, USA
10 Arktonics, LLC, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
GeSn lasers enable the monolithic integration of lasers on the Si platform using all-group-IV direct-bandgap material. The GeSn laser study recently moved from optical pumping into electrical injection. In this work, we present explorative investigations of GeSn heterostructure laser diodes with various layer thicknesses and material compositions. Cap layer material was studied by using Si0.03Ge0.89Sn0.08 and Ge0.95Sn0.05, and cap layer total thickness was also compared. The 190 nm SiGeSn-cap device had threshold of 0.6 kA/cm2 at 10 K and a maximum operating temperature (Tmax) of 100 K, compared to 1.4 kA/cm2 and 50 K from 150 nm SiGeSn-cap device, respectively. Furthermore, the 220 nm GeSn-cap device had 10 K threshold at 2.4 kA/cm2 and Tmax at 90 K, i.e., higher threshold and lower maximal operation temperature compared to the SiGeSn cap layer, indicating that enhanced electron confinement using SiGeSn can reduce the threshold considerably. The study of the active region material showed that device gain region using Ge0.87Sn0.13 had a higher threshold and lower Tmax, compared to Ge0.89Sn0.11. The performance was affected by the metal absorption, free carrier absorption, and possibly defect density level. The maximum peak wavelength was measured as 2682 nm at 90 K by using Ge0.87Sn0.13 in gain regions. The investigations provide directions to the future GeSn laser diode designs toward the full integration of group-IV photonics on a Si platform.
Photonics Research
2022, 10(1): 01000222
Author Affiliations
Abstract
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Microphotonics Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USAE-mail: jfliu01@mit.edu
We report an above-band-gap radiative transition in the photoluminescence spectra of single crystalline Ge in the temperature range of 20~296 K. The temperature-independence of the peak position at ~0.74 eV is remarkably different from the behavior of direct and indirect gap transitions in Ge. This transition is observed in n-type, p-type, and intrinsic single crystal Ge alike, and its intensity decreases with the increase of temperature with a small activation energy of 56 meV. Some aspects of the transition are analogous to III-V semiconductors with dilute nitrogen doping, which suggests that the origin could be related to an isoelectronic defect.
关键词 半导体材料 单晶锗 跃迁 160.6000 Semiconductor materials 300.6280 Spectroscopy, fluorescence and luminescence 300.6470 Spectroscopy, semiconductors 
Chinese Optics Letters
2009, 7(4): 04271

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