• DocumentCode
    2745469
  • Title

    A germanium on silicon uni-traveling carrier photodiode

  • Author

    Piels, Molly ; Ramaswamy, Anand ; Bowers, John E.

  • Author_Institution
    ECE Dept., Univ. of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    9-13 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    25
  • Lastpage
    26
  • Abstract
    A Ge/Si uni-traveling carrier (UTC) photodetector is demonstrated for the first time. The device has a bandwidth of 15GHz and no saturation of the DC response is visible at -1V up to 28dBm input power.
  • Keywords
    dark conductivity; elemental semiconductors; germanium; photodiodes; silicon; DC response; Ge-Si; bandwidth 15 GHz; saturation; unitraveling carrier photodiode; voltage -1 V; Bandwidth; Detectors; Photoconductivity; Photodiodes; Photonics; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Arlington, VA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8940-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHO.2011.6110407
  • Filename
    6110407