Room-temperature 2-μm GeSn P-I-N homojunction light-emitting diode for inplane coupling to group-IV waveguides

Abstract

We report the electroluminescence of a planar p-i-n diode based on an undoped GeSn layer where the p- and n-type electrodes are fabricated by using the CMOS process of ion implantation. The measurement shows a broad spectrum at a peak energy located below the bulk bandgap of Ge associated with indirect optical transition analyzed by taking into account composition- and strain-dependent modeling. This work provides an alternative approach to the fabrication of GeSn-based p-i-n light-emitting diodes as well as moving towards the integration with waveguided on-chip group IV photonic devices.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Oct 02, 2017
Source ID
10.1063/1.4999395

Entities

People

  • C. C. Chang
  • Greg Sun
  • Hui Li
  • Hung Hsiang Cheng
  • Joshua R Hendrickson
  • Richard Soref
  • Tai-wei Chang

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • Air Force Research Laboratory
  • National Science and Technology Council
  • University of Massachusetts

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology