On-chip infrared photonics with Si-Ge-heterostructures: What is next?

IA Fischer, M Brehm, M De Seta, G Isella, DJ Paul… - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The integration of Ge on Si for photonics applications has reached a high level of maturity:
Ge photodetectors are available on the Si platform in foundry processes, and Si/Ge …

High-power mid-infrared (λ∼ 3-6 μm) quantum cascade lasers

LJ Mawst, D Botez - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performances of mid-infrared (IR) quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are now reaching a
maturity level that enables a variety of applications which require compact laser sources …

Three-dimensional reconstruction of interface roughness and alloy disorder in Ge/GeSi asymmetric coupled quantum wells using electron tomography

E Paysen, G Capellini, E Talamas Simola… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Interfaces play an essential role in the performance of ever-shrinking semiconductor
devices, making comprehensive determination of their three-dimensional (3D) structural …

Magnetic-field-induced cavity protection for intersubband polaritons

D De Bernardis, M Jeannin, JM Manceau, R Colombelli… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We analyze the effect of a strong perpendicular magnetic field on an intersubband transition
in a disordered doped quantum well strongly coupled to an optical cavity. The magnetic field …

High-quality CMOS compatible n-type SiGe parabolic quantum wells for intersubband photonics at 2.5–5 THz

E Campagna, E Talamas Simola, T Venanzi… - …, 2024 - degruyter.com
A parabolic potential that confines charge carriers along the growth direction of quantum
wells semiconductor systems is characterized by a single resonance frequency, associated …

Impact of the valley orbit coupling on exchange gate for spin qubits in silicon

B Tariq, X Hu - npj Quantum Information, 2022 - nature.com
The mixing of conduction band valleys plays a critical role in determining electronic
spectrum and dynamics in a silicon nanostructure. Here, we investigate theoretically how …

Analysis of interface roughness in strained InGaAs/AlInAs quantum cascade laser structures (λ∼ 4.6 μm) by atom probe tomography

B Knipfer, S Xu, JD Kirch, D Botez, LJ Mawst - Journal of Crystal Growth, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, in-plane interface roughness (IFR) values are extracted via atomic probe
tomography (APT) for a few key interfaces within a quantum cascade laser (QCL) active …

State-of-the-art mid-infrared QCLs: elastic scattering, high CW power and coherent-power scaling

D Botez, LJ Mawst - Mid-Infrared and Terahertz Quantum Cascade …, 2023 - cambridge.org
The achievement in 1994 [1] of implementing the intersubband-transition laser concept [2],
together with the achievement in 2002 of continuous-wave (CW) roomtemperature (RT) …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear Charge Transport and Excitable Phenomena in Semiconductor Superlattices

LL Bonilla, M Carretero, E Mompó - Entropy, 2024 - mdpi.com
Semiconductor superlattices are periodic nanostructures consisting of epitaxially grown
quantum wells and barriers. For thick barriers, the quantum wells are weakly coupled and …

Valley splitting depending on the size and location of a silicon quantum dot

JRF Lima, G Burkard - Physical Review Materials, 2024 - APS
The valley splitting (VS) of a silicon quantum dot plays an important role for the performance
and scalability of silicon spin qubits. In this paper we investigate the VS of a SiGe/Si/SiGe …