High-Q CMOS-integrated photonic crystal microcavity devices

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mehta, Karan K ^a   Orcutt, Jason S ^a   Tehar Zahav, Ofer ^b,d   Sternberg, Zvi ^b   Bafrali, Reha ^c   Meade, Roy ^c   Ram, Rajeev J ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b Micron Semiconductors Israel Ltd   (Israel)

^c MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^d INTEL CORPORATION   (Israel)

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EID: 84894162012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04077     Document Type: Article

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