Direct-gap photoluminescence with tunable emission wavelength in Ge1− ySny alloys on silicon

J Mathews, RT Beeler, J Tolle, C Xu, R Roucka… - Applied physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Direct-gap photoluminescence has been observed at room temperature in Ge 1− y Sn y
alloys grown on (001) Si substrates. The emission wavelength is tunable over a 90 meV …

Tunable optical gap at a fixed lattice constant in group-IV semiconductor alloys

VR D'Costa, YY Fang, J Tolle, J Kouvetakis… - Physical Review Letters, 2009 - APS
A direct absorption edge tunable between 0.8 and∼ 1.4 eV is demonstrated in strain-free
ternary Ge 1-xy Si x Sn y alloys epitaxially grown on Ge-buffered Si. This decoupling of …

Direct gap electroluminescence from Si/Ge1− ySny pin heterostructure diodes

R Roucka, J Mathews, RT Beeler, J Tolle… - Applied physics …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Electroluminescence spectra from Si/Ge 1− y Sn y heterostructure diodes are reported. The
observed emission is dominated by direct gap optical transitions and displays the expected …

High quality Ge virtual substrates on Si wafers with standard STI patterning

R Loo, G Wang, L Souriau, JC Lin… - Journal of The …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Further improving complementary metal oxide semiconductor performance beyond the 22
nm generation likely requires the use of high mobility channel materials, such as Ge for p …

High-performance near-IR photodiodes: a novel chemistry-based approach to Ge and Ge–Sn devices integrated on silicon

R Roucka, J Mathews, R Beeler, J Tolle… - IEEE Journal of …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ge/Si heterostructure diodes based on n++ Si (100)/i-Ge/p-Ge and p++ Si (100)/i-Ge/n-Ge
stacks and intrinsic region thickness of~ 350 and~ 900 nm, respectively, were fabricated …

Temperature-dependent photoluminescence of Ge/Si and Ge1-ySny/Si, indicating possible indirect-to-direct bandgap transition at lower Sn content

MY Ryu, TR Harris, YK Yeo, RT Beeler… - Applied Physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Temperature (T)-dependent photoluminescence (PL) has been investigated for both p-Ge
and n-Ge 1-y Sn y films grown on Si substrates. For the p-Ge, strong direct bandgap (ED) …

Direct versus indirect optical recombination in Ge films grown on Si substrates

G Grzybowski, R Roucka, J Mathews, L Jiang… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
The optical emission spectra from Ge films on Si are markedly different from their bulk Ge
counterparts. Whereas bulk Ge emission is dominated by the material's indirect gap, the …

Nonlinear structure-composition relationships in the GeSn/Si(100) () system

R Beeler, R Roucka, AVG Chizmeshya… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
The compositional dependence of the cubic lattice parameter in Ge 1− y Sn y alloys has
been revisited. Large 1000-atom supercell ab initio simulations confirm earlier theoretical …

Strain-free Ge∕ GeSiSn quantum cascade lasers based on L-valley intersubband transitions

G Sun, HH Cheng, J Menendez, JB Khurgin… - Applied physics …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The authors propose a Ge∕ Ge 0.76 Si 0.19 Sn 0.05 quantum cascade laser using
intersubband transitions at L valleys of the conduction band which has a “clean” offset of 150 …

E centers in ternary Si1− x− yGexSny random alloys

A Chroneos, C Jiang, RW Grimes… - Applied Physics …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
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