High-performance In0.5Ga0.5As/GaAs quantum-dot lasers on silicon with multiple-layer quantum-dot dislocation filters

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2849-2855

  Yang, Jun ^a   Bhattacharya, Pallab ^a   Mi, Zetian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dislocation filter; Laser on silicon; Quantum dot (QD) laser

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; STRAIN; SUBSTRATES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

QUANTUM-DOT DISLOCATION FILTERS; QUANTUM-DOT LASERS; SILICON SUBSTRATES; STRAIN-DISLOCATION INTERACTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 36248970647     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2007.906928     Document Type: Article

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