Plasma-induced quantum well intermixing for monolithic photonic integration

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 373-382

  Djie, Hery Susanto ^a   Mei, Ting ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Inductively coupled plasma (ICP); Photonic integrated circuits (PICs); Quantum well; Quantum well intermixing (QWI)

Indexed keywords

IMPURITY FREE VACANCY DISORDERING; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (PIC); QUANTUM WELL INTERMIXING (QWI); ROOM TEMPERATURE (RT);

ENERGY GAP; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; ION BOMBARDMENT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 18844366461     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2005.845611     Document Type: Article

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