Efficient low voltage, high frequency silicon CMOS light emitting device and electro-optical interface

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 614-617

  Snyman, L W ^a   Du Plessis, M ^a   Seevinck, E ^a   Aharoni, H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

ELECTROOPTICAL INTERFACES;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 0033337914     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/55.806102     Document Type: Article

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