Feasibility Of Novel Si-Based Interminiband Lasers

1998 ◽  
Vol 533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Sun ◽  
Lionel Friedman ◽  
Richard A. Soref

AbstractWe have designed a parallel interminiband lasing in superlattice structures of coherently strained Si0.5Ge0.5/Si quantum wells (QWs). Population inversion is achieved between the non-parabolic heavy-hole valence minibands locally in-k-space. Lasing transition is at 5.4μm. Our analysis indicates that an optical gain of 134/cm can be obtained when the laser structure is pumped with a current density of 5kA/cm2.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sfina N ◽  
Jbeli A ◽  
Lazzari JL ◽  
Said M

1992 ◽  
Vol 285 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Labrie ◽  
J.J. Dubowski

ABSTRACTPiezoreflectance and photoreflectance spectroscopies have been used to investigate the electronic properties of CdTe-Cd1-xMnxTe (x − 0.10) multiple quantum well and superlattice structures grown by Pulsed Laser Evaporation and Epitaxy (PLEE). The structures with the CdTe well widths from 54Å to 245Å have been investigated. The spectra exhibit a series of signatures which are attributed to free exciton transitions occuring between the heavy-hole and light-hole bands and the upper electron subbands within the CdTe well layers. The spectra indicate that the PLEE grown structures are of an excellent quality typical of the best currently available material.


2007 ◽  
Vol 121-123 ◽  
pp. 677-680
Author(s):  
Yan Wu Lu ◽  
Gregory Sun

This paper presents a novel valance intersubband laser based on Si-based Si-Ge superlattices grown on a relaxed Si0.5Ge0.5 buffer layer. Effective mass theory is used to calculate the inplane valence subband dispersion of Si-Ge superlattices within 6×6 Kane model. Analysis of the inplane energy dispersion shows that the light-hole effective mass is inverted at off zone center region. The laser structure can be designed with a simple quantum cascade scheme. Our calculation shows that with the electrical pump, it is possible to achieve population inversion between the two subbands at local k space where the light-hole effective mass is inverted. Optical gain of the order 100/cm can be achieved with a pumping current density 10 kA/cm2.


1997 ◽  
Vol 482 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. C. Chong ◽  
Y. C. Yeo ◽  
M. F. Li ◽  
W. J. Fan

AbstractThe valence subband structures, density-of-states, and optical gain of (0001) wurtzite (WZ) InxGa1-xN/GaN quantum wells (QWs) are studied using a numerical approach without analytical approximations. We used the effective-mass parameters of GaN and InN derived using the Empirical Pseudopotential Method. By varying the well width and mole fraction of In in the well material, the effects of quantum confinement and compressive strain are studied. A narrower well width and a higher In mole fraction in the well lead to TE enhancement and TM suppression of the optical gain. From the relationship between the optical gain and the radiative current density, we obtain the transparent current density for a single QW to be 200 A/cm2. Further, we analyze the InxGa1-xN/GaN/AlGaN separate confinement heterostructure multiple-QW laser structure. It is shown that a suitable combination of well width and number of QWs should be selected in optimizing the threshold current density in such MQW lasers


Author(s):  
I-Fei Tsu ◽  
D.L. Kaiser ◽  
S.E. Babcock

A current theme in the study of the critical current density behavior of YBa2Cu3O7-δ (YBCO) grain boundaries is that their electromagnetic properties are heterogeneous on various length scales ranging from 10s of microns to ˜ 1 Å. Recently, combined electromagnetic and TEM studies on four flux-grown bicrystals have demonstrated a direct correlation between the length scale of the boundaries’ saw-tooth facet configurations and the apparent length scale of the electrical heterogeneity. In that work, enhanced critical current densities are observed at applied fields where the facet period is commensurate with the spacing of the Abrikosov flux vortices which must be pinned if higher critical current density values are recorded. To understand the microstructural origin of the flux pinning, the grain boundary topography and grain boundary dislocation (GBD) network structure of [001] tilt YBCO bicrystals were studied by TEM and HRTEM.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minmin Wang ◽  
Mengke Zhang ◽  
Wenwu Song ◽  
Weiting Zhong ◽  
Xunyue Wang ◽  
...  

A CoMo2S4/Ni3S2 heterojunction is prepared with an overpotential of only 51 mV to drive a current density of 10 mA cm−2 in 1 M KOH solution and ∼100% of the potential remains in the ∼50 h chronopotentiometric curve at 10 mA cm−2.


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