There is currently much activity toward the integration of mid-infrared semiconductor lasers
on Si substrates for develo** a variety of smart, compact, sensors based on Si-photonics …

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 …

Increasing demand for every faster information throughput is driving the emergence of
integrated photonic technology. The traditional silicon platform used for integrated …

Monolithic integration of III-V semiconductor devices on Silicon (Si) has long been of great
interest in photonic integrated circuits (PICs), as well as traditional integrated circuits (ICs) …

Si-based group III-V material enables a multitude of applications and functionalities of the
novel optoelectronic integration chips (OEICs) owing to their excellent optoelectronic …

Nucleation theory provides a powerful tool for growth modeling of a variety of objects: from
liquid droplets to thin solid films and biological structures. Theoretical approaches based on …

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Silicon-based heterostructures have come a long way from the discovery of strain as a new
and essential parameter for band structure engineering to the present state of electron and …

The monolithic hetero-integration of III/V materials on Si substrates could enable a multitude
of new device applications and functionalities which would benefit from both the excellent …

This paper summarizes our present knowledge of the defect-free nucleation of III/V
semiconductors on exactly oriented Si (001) surfaces. A defect-free III/V nucleation layer on …