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
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