Valence band engineering in strained-layer structures

EP O'Reilly - Semiconductor Science and Technology, 1989 - iopscience.iop.org
It is now possible to grow high-quality strained-layer superlattices, in which individual layers
are composed of semiconductor materials which would normally have significantly different …

Physics and applications of GexSi1-x/Si strained-layer heterostructures

R People - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1986 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reviews recent advances in our current level of understanding of the physics
underlying transport and optical properties of Ge x Si 1-x/Si strained-layer heterostructures …

Si/ge nanostructures

K Brunner - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
A review is given on the formation mechanisms and the properties of Si/Ge nanostructures
that have been synthesized by self-assembling and self-ordering during heteroepitaxy …

A pathway to thin GaAs virtual substrate on on‐axis Si (001) with ultralow threading dislocation density

C Shang, J Selvidge, E Hughes… - … status solidi (a), 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With recent developments in high‐speed and high‐power electronics and Si‐based
photonic integration, the concept of monolithic III–V/Si integration through epitaxial methods …

A bird's-eye view on the evolution of semiconductor superlattices and quantum wells

L Esaki - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 1986 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Following the past seventeen-year developmental path in the research of semiconductor
superlattices and quantum wells, significant milestones are presented with emphasis on …

Plastic relaxation and relaxed buffer layers for semiconductor epitaxy

R Beanland, DJ Dunstan, PJ Goodhew - Advances in Physics, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
We present a critical review of the strategies used in the fabrication of mismatched
semiconductor heterostructures. By using simple concepts derived from the Matthews model …

Silicon-based semiconductor heterostructures: column IV bandgap engineering

JC Bean - Proceedings of the IEEE, 1992 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of strained layer epitaxy to grow high-quality Ge/sub x/Si/sub 1-x//Si
heterostructures and their application to a wide range of heterostructure devices are …

Demonstration of a Ge/GeSn/Ge quantum-well microdisk resonator on silicon: enabling high-quality Ge (Sn) materials for micro-and nanophotonics

R Chen, S Gupta, YC Huang, Y Huo, CW Rudy… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We theoretically study and experimentally demonstrate a pseudomorphic Ge/Ge0. 92Sn0.
08/Ge quantum-well microdisk resonator on Ge/Si (001) as a route toward a compact GeSn …

On the formation of semiconductor interfaces

F Flores, C Tejedor - Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics, 1987 - iopscience.iop.org
A critical review of the different theoretical models proposed for explaining the metal-
semiconductor and semiconductor-semiconductor interfaces is presented. Although no …

Bandgap and transport properties of Si/sub 1-x/Ge/sub x/by analysis of nearly ideal Si/Si/sub 1-x/Ge/sub x//Si heterojunction bipolar transistors

CA King, JL Hoyt, JF Gibbons - IEEE transactions on electron …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Si/Si/sub 1-x/Ge/sub x//Si NpN heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) produced by a
chemical vapor deposition technique, limited-reaction processing, were analyzed using …