Low-loss silicon nitride waveguide hybridly integrated with colloidal quantum dots

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 12152-12160

  Xie, Weiqiang ^a   Zhu, Yunpeng ^a   Aubert, Tangi ^a   Verstuyft, Steven ^a   Hens, Zeger ^a   Van Thourhout, Dries ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTALS; NITRIDES; SILICON; SILICON NITRIDE; TEMPERATURE; WAVEGUIDES;

COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; COMPOSITE LAYER; EMBEDDED QUANTUM DOTS; HYBRID INTEGRATION; HYBRID WAVEGUIDES; LOW-TEMPERATURE DEPOSITION; SILICON NITRIDE WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84941255342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.012152     Document Type: Article

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