Silicon (Si) photonics is a disruptive technology on the fast track to revolutionise integrated
photonics. An indispensable branch thereof, heterogeneous Si integration, has also evolved …

Materials research plays a vital role in transforming breakthrough scientific ideas into next‐
generation technology. Similar to the way silicon revolutionized the microelectronics …

After dominating the electronics industry for decades, silicon is on the verge of becoming the
material of choice for the photonics industry: the traditional stronghold of III-V …

A critical challenge for the convergence of optics and electronics is that the micrometre scale
of optics is significantly larger than the nanometre scale of modern electronic devices. In the …

Methods are provided for treating germanium Surfaces in preparation for Subsequent
deposition, particularly gate dielectric deposition by atomic layer deposition (ALD). Prior to …

Methods are provided for producing SiGe-on-insulator structures and for forming strain-
relaxed SiGe layers on silicon while minimizing defects. Amorphous SiGe layers are …

Since the first edition of this book, a lot of interesting integrated optoelectronic devices were
investigated and introduced in numerous publications. Therefore, Springer and me decided …

Si modulators and Ge photodetectors are monolithically integrated on Si-on-insulator. The
carrier-depletion-type Si modulators achieved high modulation efficiency and speed (V¿ L …

We have fabricated Ge/Si heterojunction photodetectors with high responsivities of 550
mA/W at 1.32 μm and 250 mA/W at 1.55 μm and time responses shorter than 850 ps. High …

With the increasing use of optical fibers in telecommunications, the demand for efficient
photodetectors operating in the low loss windows 1.3–1.6 m of silica fibers is growing …