Ge-on-Si for Si-based integrated materials and photonic devices

Frontiers of Optoelectronics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-50

  Hu, Weixuan ^a   Cheng, Buwen ^a   Xue, Chunlai ^a   Su, Shaojian ^a   Xue, Haiyun ^a   Zuo, Yuhua ^a   Wang, Qiming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

Author keywords

Ge; optoelectronic integration; photonic device

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873880478     PISSN: 20952759     EISSN: 20952767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12200-012-0200-2     Document Type: Review

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