Breakthroughs in Photonics 2012: Breakthroughs in Nanomembranes and Nanomembrane Lasers

Author

Weidong Zhou ; Zhenqiang Ma

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Madison, TX, USA

Volume

5

Issue

2

fYear

2013

fDate

Apr-13

Abstract

Crystalline semiconductor nanomembranes (NMs) offer unprecedented opportunities for unique electronic and photonic devices for vertically stacked high-density photonic/electronic integration, high-performance flexible electronics, and adaptive flexible/conformal photonics. We present here major progresses reported over the last year, in the area of semiconductor NM photonics, with focuses on the innovative membrane laser devices and structures for silicon photonics and flexible optoelectronics.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; flexible electronics; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; membranes; nanophotonics; semiconductor lasers; silicon; surface emitting lasers; Si; adaptive flexible-conformal photonics; crystalline semiconductor nanomembranes; flexible electronics; nanomembrane lasers; semiconductor NM photonics; silicon photonics; vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser; vertically stacked high-density photonic-electronic integration; Cavity resonators; Photonics; Silicon; Substrates; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Fano resonance; Semiconductor nanomembrane (NM); bio-integrated electronics; flexible electronics; flexible photonics; membrane lasers; membrane reflectors (MRs); photonic crystals; semiconductor lasers; silicon photonics; vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSELs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0655

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOT.2013.2250942

Filename

6473814