Strained silicon as a new electro-optic material

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7090, 2006, Pages 199-202

  Jacobsen, Rune S ^a   Andersen, Karin N ^a   Borel, Peter I ^a   Fage Pedersen, Jacob ^a   Frandsen, Lars H ^a   Hansen, Ole ^a   Kristensen, Martin ^a,b   Lavrinenko, Andrei V ^a   Moulin, Gaid ^a   Ou, Haiyan ^a   Peucheret, Christophe ^a   Zsigri, Beáta ^a   Bjarklev, Anders ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; ELECTROOPTICAL MATERIALS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING; STRAIN; WAVEGUIDES;

MONOLITHIC COMPONENTS; OPTICAL ALTERNATIVES; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; STRAINED SILICON;

SILICON;

SILICON;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRONICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 33646574983     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04706     Document Type: Article

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