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 …

Room temperature operation of n-type Ge/SiGe terahertz quantum cascade lasers predicted by non-equilibrium Green's functions

T Grange, D Stark, G Scalari, J Faist… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
n-type Ge/SiGe terahertz quantum cascade lasers are investigated using non-equilibrium
Green's functions calculations. We compare the temperature dependence of the terahertz …

Control of Electron-State Coupling in Asymmetric Quantum Wells

C Ciano, M Virgilio, M Montanari, L Persichetti… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
Theoretical predictions indicate that the n-type Ge/Si-Ge multi-quantum-well system is the
most promising material for the realization of a Si-compatible THz quantum cascade laser …

Antimony segregation in Ge and formation of n-type selectively doped Ge films in molecular beam epitaxy

DV Yurasov, AV Antonov, MN Drozdov… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Antimony segregation in Ge (001) films grown by molecular beam epitaxy was studied. A
quantitative dependence of the Sb segregation ratio in Ge on growth temperature was …

[HTML][HTML] Unintentional p-type conductivity in intrinsic Ge-rich SiGe/Ge heterostructures grown on Si (001)

H Tetzner, W Seifert, O Skibitzki, Y Yamamoto… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we investigate the effective background charge density in intrinsic Si 0.06 Ge
0.94/Ge plastically relaxed heterostructures deposited on Si (001). Hall effect measurements …

Extended density-matrix model applied to silicon-based terahertz quantum cascade lasers

TV Dinh, A Valavanis, LJM Lever, Z Ikonić… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
Silicon-based terahertz quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) offer potential advantages over
existing III-V devices. Although coherent electron transport effects are known to be important …

SiGe nanomembrane quantum-well infrared photodetectors

H Durmaz, P Sookchoo, X Cui, RB Jacobson… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
SiGe quantum wells are promising candidates for the development of intersubband light
emitters and photodetectors operating at mid-and far-infrared wavelengths. By virtue of their …

[HTML][HTML] THz intersubband electroluminescence from n-type Ge/SiGe quantum cascade structures

D Stark, M Mirza, L Persichetti, M Montanari… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We report electroluminescence originating from L-valley transitions in n-type Ge/Si 0.15 Ge
0.85 quantum cascade structures centered at 3.4 and 4.9 THz with a line broadening of Δ …

Intersubband transition engineering in the conduction band of asymmetric coupled Ge/SiGe quantum wells

L Persichetti, M Montanari, C Ciano, L Di Gaspare… - Crystals, 2020 - mdpi.com
n-type Ge/SiGe asymmetric coupled quantum wells represent the building block of a variety
of nanoscale quantum devices, including recently proposed designs for a silicon-based THz …

Long intersubband relaxation times in n-type germanium quantum wells

M Ortolani, D Stehr, M Wagner, M Helm, G Pizzi… - Applied Physics …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
We measured the non-radiative intersubband relaxation time in n-type modulation-doped
Ge/SiGe multi-quantum wells of different thickness by means of degenerate pump-probe …