Highly efficient on-chip direct electronic–plasmonic transducers

W Du, T Wang, HS Chu, CA Nijhuis - Nature Photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Photonic elements can carry information with a capacity exceeding 1,000 times that of
electronic components, but, due to the optical diffraction limit, these elements are large and …

Oxide-confined VCSELs for high-speed optical interconnects

M Feng, CH Wu, N Holonyak - IEEE Journal of Quantum …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The electrically pumped vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) was first
demonstrated with metal cavities by Iga (1979); however, the device threshold current was …

Resonance-free frequency response of a semiconductor laser

M Feng, HW Then, N Holonyak, G Walter… - Applied Physics …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We show experimentally and analytically that fast spontaneous recombination lifetime, τ B,
spon⁠, leads to resonance-free frequency response in semiconductor lasers, and as a …

The transistor laser: Theory and experiment

HW Then, M Feng, N Holonyak - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The quantum-well (QW) heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) laser the transistor laser (TL),
inherently a fast switching device, operates by transporting small minority base charge …

Electrically driven highly tunable cavity plasmons

X He, J Tang, H Hu, J Shi, Z Guan, S Zhang… - ACS Photonics, 2019 - ACS Publications
Electrically driven ultrafast plasmon sources with narrow line width and wide-range
wavelength tunability are desirable choices for integrated nanophotonic circuits. These have …

Analytical modeling of current gain in multiple-quantum-well heterojunction bipolar light-emitting transistors

M Kumar, LC Hsueh, SW Cheng… - … on Electron Devices, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have developed an analytical model to determine the current gain of heterojunction
bipolar light-emitting transistors (HBLETs) with multiple-quantum-wells (MQWs) inserted into …

Electro-optical logics by three-terminal quantum-well-light-emitting transistors integration

HT Cheng, YT Liang, YT Huang, SJ Hsu, WH Lin… - Photonics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The three-terminal quantum-well-light-emitting transistors (QW-LETs) possess appealing
characteristics, including multipath bidirectional electrical and optical inputs/outputs …

Microwave circuit model of the three-port transistor laser

HW Then, M Feng, N Holonyak - Journal of Applied Physics, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Based on an earlier charge control analysis, we have constructed a microwave circuit model
of a three-port quantum-well (QW) transistor laser (TL) by extending Kirchhoff's law to …

Directional launching of surface plasmon polaritons by electrically driven aperiodic groove array reflectors

Y Lin, TX Hoang, HS Chu, CA Nijhuis - Nanophotonics, 2021 - degruyter.com
Access to surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) with directional control excited by electrical
means is important for applications in (on-chip) nano-optoelectronic devices and to …

In operando characterization and control over intermittent light emission from molecular tunnel junctions via molecular backbone rigidity

T Wang, W Du, N Tomczak, L Wang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In principle, excitation of surface plasmons by molecular tunnel junctions can be controlled
at the molecular level. Stable electrical excitation sources of surface plasmons are therefore …