Optical transmission losses in polycrystalline silicon strip waveguides: Effects of waveguide dimensions, thermal treatment, hydrogen passivation, and wavelength

Journal of Electronic Materials

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1380-1386

  Liao, Ling ^a   Lim, Desmond R ^a   Agarwal, Anuradha M ^a   Duan, Xiaoman ^a   Lee, Kevin K ^a   Kimerling, Lionel C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; THERMAL EFFECTS;

OPTICAL TRANSMISSION LOSSES; SILICON STRIP WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0034497169     PISSN: 03615235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11664-000-0122-4     Document Type: Article

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