Quantum dash intermixing

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1239-1249

  Susanto Djie, Hery ^a,b   Wang, Yang ^a   Ding, Yun Hsiang ^a   Wang, Dong Ning ^a   Hwang, James C M ^a   Fang, Xiao Ming ^c   Wu, Ying ^c   Fastenau, Joel M ^c   Liu, Amy W K ^c   Dang, Gerard T ^d   Chang, Wayne H ^d   Ooi, Boon S ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b JDS UNIPHASE   (United States)

^c IQE INC   (United States)

^d U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disordering; Interdiffusion; Ion implantation; Photonic integrated circuits (PICs); Quantum dash (Qdash); Quantum dot intermixing; Quantum well (QW) intermixing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ANNEALING; MIXING; NITROGEN; NONMETALS; RELIABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

AS-GROWN; BAND GAP SHIFTING; DISORDERING; IMPURITY-FREE VACANCY DISORDERING; IMPURITY-INDUCED DISORDERING; INP SUBSTRATES; INTERDIFFUSION; ION-IMPLANTATION; LIGHT-CURRENT CHARACTERISTICS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (PICS); POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM DASH; QUANTUM-DASH (QDASH); QUANTUM-DOT INTERMIXING; QUANTUM-WELL (QW) INTERMIXING; STRUCTURES GROWN;

LASERS;

EID: 48949107386     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.921396     Document Type: Article

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