• DocumentCode
    2472752
  • Title

    Efficient luminescence in highly tensile-strained germanium

  • Author

    Huo, Y. ; Lin, H. ; Rong, Y. ; Makarova, M. ; Li, M. ; Chen, R. ; Kamins, T.I. ; Vuckovic, J. ; Harris, J.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    9-11 Sept. 2009
  • Firstpage
    265
  • Lastpage
    267
  • Abstract
    Up to 2.3% biaxial tensile-strained Ge layers have been grown on InGaAs/GaAs buffer layers. A dramatic increase in low temperature photoluminescence intensity for >2% strained Ge confirms the existence of a direct band gap Ge.
  • Keywords
    III-V semiconductors; elemental semiconductors; energy gap; gallium arsenide; germanium; indium compounds; molecular beam epitaxial growth; photoluminescence; semiconductor epitaxial layers; semiconductor growth; Ge; III-V MBE system; InGaAs-GaAs; biaxial tensile-strained Ge layers; buffer layers; direct band gap; efficient luminescence; highly tensile-strained germanium; low temperature photoluminescence intensity; Buffer layers; Electrons; Gallium arsenide; Germanium; Indium gallium arsenide; Lattices; Luminescence; Photonic band gap; Strain measurement; Tensile strain;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics, 2009. GFP '09. 6th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • ISSN
    1949-2081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4402-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1949-2081
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2009.5338361
  • Filename
    5338361