Planar light-emitting electro-optical interfaces in standard silicon complementary metal oxide semiconductor integrated circuitry

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3230-3240

  Snyman, Lukas Willem ^a   Aharoni, Herzl ^b   Du Plessis, Monuk ^c   Marais, Jan F K ^c   Van Niekerk, Deon ^c   Biber, Alice ^d  

^a TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d CSEM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Microelectronics; Optoelectronics; Photonics; Silight emitting devices

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; MICROELECTRONICS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VLSI CIRCUITS;

SILICON LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0036983462     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1520541     Document Type: Article

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