Heterogeneously grown tunable group-IV laser on silicon

Mantu Hudait; M. Clavel; L. Lester; D. Saladukha; T. Ochalski; F. Murphy-Armando

doi:10.1117/12.2218364

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13 February 2016 Heterogeneously grown tunable group-IV laser on silicon

Mantu Hudait, M. Clavel, L. Lester, D. Saladukha, T. Ochalski, F. Murphy-Armando

Proceedings Volume 9755, Quantum Sensing and Nano Electronics and Photonics XIII; 97550Y (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2218364
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Tunable tensile-strained germanium (epsilon-Ge) thin films on GaAs and heterogeneously integrated on silicon (Si) have been demonstrated using graded III-V buffer architectures grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). epsilon-Ge epilayers with tunable strain from 0% to 1.95% on GaAs and 0% to 1.11% on Si were realized utilizing MBE. The detailed structural, morphological, band alignment and optical properties of these highly tensile-strained Ge materials were characterized to establish a pathway for wavelength-tunable laser emission from 1.55 μm to 2.1 μm. High-resolution X-ray analysis confirmed pseudomorphic epsilon-Ge epitaxy in which the amount of strain varied linearly as a function of indium alloy composition in the InxGa1-xAs buffer. Cross-sectional transmission electron microscopic analysis demonstrated a sharp heterointerface between the epsilon-Ge and the InxGa1-xAs layer and confirmed the strain state of the epsilon-Ge epilayer. Lowtemperature micro-photoluminescence measurements confirmed both direct and indirect bandgap radiative recombination between the Γ and L valleys of Ge to the light-hole valence band, with L-lh bandgaps of 0.68 eV and 0.65 eV demonstrated for the 0.82% and 1.11% epsilon-Ge on Si, respectively. The highly epsilon-Ge exhibited a direct bandgap, and wavelength-tunable emission was observed for all samples on both GaAs and Si. Successful heterogeneous integration of tunable epsilon-Ge quantum wells on Si paves the way for the implementation of monolithic heterogeneous devices on Si.

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Mantu Hudait, M. Clavel, L. Lester, D. Saladukha, T. Ochalski, and F. Murphy-Armando "Heterogeneously grown tunable group-IV laser on silicon", Proc. SPIE 9755, Quantum Sensing and Nano Electronics and Photonics XIII, 97550Y (13 February 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2218364

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