Si–Ge–Sn alloys: From growth to applications

S Wirths, D Buca, S Mantl - Progress in crystal growth and characterization …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this review article, we address key material parameters as well as the fabrication and
application of crystalline GeSn binary and SiGeSn ternary alloys. Here, the transition from an …

SiGeSn quantum well for photonics integrated circuits on Si photonics platform: a review

O Olorunsola, A Said, S Ojo, H Stanchu… - Journal of Physics D …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent studies of SiGeSn materials and optoelectronic devices hold great promise for
photonics integrated circuits (PICs) on Si platform featuring scalable, cost-effective, and …

Compositional dependence of the direct and indirect band gaps in Ge1− ySny alloys from room temperature photoluminescence: implications for the indirect to direct …

L Jiang, JD Gallagher, CL Senaratne… - Semiconductor …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The compositional dependence of the lowest direct and indirect band gaps in Ge 1− y Sn y
alloys has been determined from room-temperature photoluminescence measurements …

Progress on germanium–tin nanoscale alloys

J Doherty, S Biswas, E Galluccio… - Chemistry of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Group IV alloys have attracted interest in the drive to create Si compatible, direct band gap
materials for implementation in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) and …

Critical thickness for strain relaxation of Ge1− xSnx (x≤ 0.17) grown by molecular beam epitaxy on Ge (001)

W Wang, Q Zhou, Y Dong, ES Tok, YC Yeo - Applied Physics Letters, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We investigated the critical thickness (hc) for plastic relaxation of Ge 1− x Sn x grown by
molecular beam epitaxy. Ge 1− x Sn x films with various Sn mole fraction x (x≤ 0.17) and …

Material gain engineering in GeSn/Ge quantum wells integrated with an Si platform

HS Mączko, R Kudrawiec, M Gladysiewicz - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
It is shown that compressively strained Ge1− xSnx/Ge quantum wells (QWs) grown on a Ge
substrate with 0.1≤ x≤ 0.2 and width of 8 nm≤ d≤ 14 nm are a very promising gain …

Room-temperature direct-bandgap electroluminescence from type-I GeSn/SiGeSn multiple quantum wells for 2 μm LEDs

L Peng, X Li, J Zheng, X Liu, M Li, Z Liu, C Xue… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Two Ge 1-x Sn x/Si 0.1 Ge 0.85 Sn 0.05 (x= 7.3% and 8.5%) multi-quantum wells
(MQWs) based light emitting diodes (LEDs) were designed and fabricated to achieve …

Advances in light emission from group-IV alloys via lattice engineering and n-type doping based on custom-designed chemistries

CL Senaratne, JD Gallagher, T Aoki… - Chemistry of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Intrinsic and n-type Ge1–y Sn y alloys with y= 0.003–0.11 have been grown on Ge-buffered
Si via reactions of Ge3H8 and SnD4 hydrides using UHV-CVD techniques. The films exhibit …

Thickness-dependent behavior of strain relaxation and Sn segregation of GeSn epilayer during rapid thermal annealing

H Cai, K Qian, Y An, G Lin, S Wu, H Ding… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The behavior of strain relaxation and Sn segregation of GeSn epilayers during growth and
thermal annealing is very complex depending on the growth method, thickness and Sn …

Growth and characterization of SiGeSn quantum well photodiodes

IA Fischer, T Wendav, L Augel, S Jitpakdeebodin… - Optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We report on the fabrication and electro-optical characterization of SiGeSn multi-quantum
well PIN diodes. Two types of PIN diodes, in which two and four quantum wells with well and …