Physics and technology of tensile-strained germanium for high-performance silicon-compatible optoelectronics
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Modern high-bandwidth communications systems primarily use optical links to support data transmission across a range of length scales, from metro/long-haul for infrastructure backbones to shorter-range cables in data centers. As performance, cost, and energy-efficiency requirements become more demanding, optical links are expected to eventually supplant copper-based interconnects at the board-to-board, chip-to-chip, and on-chip levels as well. Most optoelectronic devices use III-V materials to achieve high performance. Though efficient, these materials are expensive, toxic, and incompatible with the standard high-volume silicon-based manufacturing used to build microprocessors. In order for the transition to optics to take place at the smaller length scales, a fully silicon-compatible photonics technology is needed to replace the III-Vs and allow us to leverage the practical advantages of silicon-based manufacturing. This dissertation presents a foundational set of new platform technologies that make major improvements to the current state of silicon-compatible optoelectronics research. In the first part, we present the development of a new method for manufacturing germanium--on--insulator substrates, an attractive materials platform for optical devices. In the second part of the dissertation, we introduce a new silicon-compatible platform technology that can be used to dramatically enhance the optical performance of germanium-based light emitters and detectors.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Jain, Jinendra Raja |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Electrical Engineering |
| Primary advisor | Howe, Roger Thomas |
| Thesis advisor | Howe, Roger Thomas |
| Thesis advisor | Brongersma, Mark L |
| Thesis advisor | Miller, D. A. B |
| Advisor | Brongersma, Mark L |
| Advisor | Miller, D. A. B |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jinendra Raja Jain. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2011. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2011 by Jinendra Raja Jain
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