Silicon waveguide integrated germanium JFET photodetector with improved speed performance

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 765-767

  Wang, Jian ^a,b   Yu, Mingbin ^a   Lo, Guoqiang ^a   Kwong, Dim Lee ^a   Lee, Sungjoo ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Germanium; junction field effect transistor (JFET); photodetector

Indexed keywords

HIGH-SPEED; JUNCTION FIELD-EFFECT-TRANSISTOR (JFET); ON-WAFER; RESPONSIVITY; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SPEED PERFORMANCE;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; SILICON WAFERS;

GERMANIUM;

EID: 79957491474     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2132794     Document Type: Article

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