Realizing efficient on-chip light sources has long been the “holy-grail” for Si-photonics
research. Several important breakthroughs were made in this field in the past few years. In …

With the emerging trend of big data and internet of things, silicon (Si) photonics technology
has been developed and applied for high‐bandwidth data transmission. Contributed by the …

Strained GeSn alloys are promising for realizing light emitters based entirely on group IV
elements. Here, we report GeSn microdisk lasers encapsulated with a SiN x stressor layer to …

(Si) GeSn semiconductors are finally coming of age after a long gestation period. The
demonstration of device-quality epi-layers and quantum-engineered heterostructures has …

Monolithic lasers on Si have long been anticipated as an enabler of full photonic integration,
and significant progress in GeSn material development shows promise for such laser …

Silicon photonics continues to progress tremendously, both in near-infrared
datacom/telecoms and in mid-IR optical sensing, despite the fact a monolithically integrated …

The success of GeSn alloys as active material for infrared lasers could pave the way toward
a monolithic technology that can be manufactured within mainstream silicon photonics …

GeSn alloys have already attracted extensive attention due to their excellent properties and
wide-ranging electronic and optoelectronic applications. Both theoretical and experimental …

SiGeSn holds great promise for enabling fully group-IV integrated photonics operating at
wavelengths extending in the mid-infrared range. Here, we demonstrate an electrically …

Semiconductor membranes emerged as a versatile class of nanomaterials to control lattice
strain and engineer complex heterostructures enabling a variety of innovative applications …