High‐Speed Photodetectors on Silicon Photonics Platform for Optical Interconnect

G Chen, Y Yu, Y Shi, N Li, W Luo, L Cao… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A photodetector (PD) converts optical signals into electrical ones and is widely used in
optical interconnect. High‐speed PDs are in high demand as they are necessary to meet …

[HTML][HTML] Breakthrough in silicon photonics technology in telecommunications, biosensing, and gas sensing

M Shahbaz, MA Butt, R Piramidowicz - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics has been an area of active research and development. Researchers have
been working on enhancing the integration density and intricacy of silicon photonic circuits …

Si-based GeSn photodetectors toward mid-infrared imaging applications

H Tran, T Pham, J Margetis, Y Zhou, W Dou… - Acs …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The GeSn detector offers high-performance Si-based infrared photodetectors with
complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technique compatibility. In this work, we …

Systematic study of Si-based GeSn photodiodes with 2.6 µm detector cutoff for short-wave infrared detection

T Pham, W Du, H Tran, J Margetis, J Tolle, G Sun… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Normal-incidence Ge_1-xSn_x photodiode detectors with Sn compositions of 7 and 10%
have been demonstrated. Such detectors were based on Ge/Ge_1-xSn_x/Ge double …

High-speed photo detection at two-micron-wavelength: technology enablement by GeSn/Ge multiple-quantum-well photodiode on 300 mm Si substrate

S Xu, W Wang, YC Huang, Y Dong… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We report high-speed photo detection at two-micron-wavelength achieved by a GeSn/Ge
multiple-quantum-well (MQW) pin photodiode, exhibiting a 3-dB bandwidth (f3-dB) above 10 …

[HTML][HTML] Dark Current Analysis on GeSn pin Photodetectors

S Ghosh, G Sun, TA Morgan, GT Forcherio, HH Cheng… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Group IV alloys of GeSn have been extensively investigated as a competing material
alternative in shortwave-to-mid-infrared photodetectors (PDs). The relatively large defect …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in high–speed, high–power photodiodes: from fundamentals to applications

Q Chen, X Zhang, MS Sharawi, R Kashyap - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
High–speed, high–power photodiodes play a key role in wireless communication systems
for the generation of millimeter wave (MMW) and terahertz (THz) waves based on photonics …

Recent progress in GeSn growth and GeSn-based photonic devices

J Zheng, Z Liu, C Xue, C Li, Y Zuo… - Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The GeSn binary alloy is a new group IV material that exhibits a direct bandgap when the Sn
content exceeds 6%. It shows great potential for laser use in optoelectronic integration …

Two-micron-wavelength germanium-tin photodiodes with low dark current and gigahertz bandwidth

Y Dong, W Wang, S Xu, D Lei, X Gong, X Guo… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We report the demonstration of a germanium-tin (Ge_0. 9Sn_0. 1) multiple-quantum-well pin
photodiode on silicon (Si) substrate for 2 μm-wavelength light detection. Characterization of …

Silicon based GeSn pin photodetector for SWIR detection

H Cong, C Xue, J Zheng, F Yang, K Yu… - IEEE Photonics …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We reported an investigation of GeSn-based pin photodetectors (PDs) with a Ge 0.92 Sn
0.08 active layer grown on n-type Si (100) substrate using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) …