Design and Fabrication of Power Si1-xGex/Si Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor for Wireless Power Amplifier Applications

A multi-finger structure power SiGe HBT device （with an emitter area of about 166μm^2） is fabricated with very simple 2μm double-mesa technology. The DC current gain β is 144.25. The B-C junction breakdown voltage reaches 9V with a collector doping concentration of 1 × 10^17cm^-3 and a collector thickness of 400nm. Though our data are influenced by large additional RF probe pads, the device exhibits a maximum oscillation frequency fmax of 10.1GHz and a cut-off frequency fτ of 1.8GHz at a DC bias point of IC=10mA and VCE = 2.5V.

Material Growth and Device Fabrication of GaAs Based 1.3μm GaInNAs Quantum Well Laser Diodes

Material growth and device fabrication of the first 1.3μm quantum well （QW） edge emitting laser diodes in China are reported. Through the optimization of the molecular beam epitaxy （MBE） growth conditions and the tuning of the indium and nitrogen composition of the GalnNAs QWs, the emission wavelengths of the QWs can be tuned to 1.3μm. Ridge geometry waveguide laser diodes are fabricated. The lasing wavelength is 1.3μm under continuous current injection at room temperature with threshold current of 1kA/cm^2 for the laser diode structures with the cleaved facet mirrors. The output light power over 30mW is obtained.

Material Growth and Device Fabrication of GaN-Based Blue-Violet Laser Diodes

Studies on first GaN-based blue-violet laser diodes(LDs) in China mainland are reported.High quality GaN materials as well as GaN-based quantum wells laser structures are grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition method.The X-ray double-crystal diffraction rocking curve measurements show the full-width half maximum of 180" and 185" for (0002) symmetric reflection and (10(-1)2) skew reflection,respectively.A room temperature mobility of 850cm2/(V·s) is obtained for a 3μm thick GaN film.Gain guided and ridge geometry waveguide laser diodes are fabricated with cleaved facet mirrors at room temperature under pulse current injection.The lasing wavelength is 405.9nm.A threshold current density of 5kA/cm2 and an output light power over 100mW are obtained for ridge geometry waveguide laser diodes.

Fabrication of 1.55μm Si-Based Resonant Cavity Enhanced Photodetectors

A novel bonding method using silicate gel as bonding medium is developed.High reflective SiO2/Si mirrors deposited on silicon substrates by e-beam deposition are bonded to the active layers at a low temperature of 350℃ without any special treatment on bonding surfaces.The reflectivities of the mirrors can be as high as 99.9%.A Si-based narrow band response InGaAs photodetector is successfully fabricated,with a quantum efficiency of 22.6% at the peak wavelength of 1.54μm,and a full width at half maximum of about 27nm.This method has a great potential for industry processes.

Design,Fabrication,and Testing of Single-Side Alignment of 16×0.8nm Arrayed-Waveguide Grating

A novel design of 100GHz-spaced 16channel arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG) based on silica-on-silicon chip is reported.AWG is achieved by adding a Y-branch to the AWG and arranging the input/output channel in a neat row,so the whole configuration can be aligned and packaged using only one fiber-array.This configuration can decrease the device's size,enlarge the minimum radius of curvature,save time on polishing and alignment,and reduce the chip's fabrication cost.

Fabrication of SiGe/Si Multi-Quantum Wells Resonant-Cavity-Enhanced Detector

A SiGe/Si multi-quantum wells resonant-cavity-enhanced(RCE) detector with high reflectivity bottom mirror is fabricated by a new method.The bottom mirror is deposited in the hole,which is etched from the backside of the sample by ethylenediamine-pyrocatechol-water(EPW) solution with the buried SiO2 layer in SOI substrate as the etching-stop layer.Reflectivity spectrum indicates that the mirror deposited in the hole has a reflectivity as high as 99% in the range of 1.2～1.5μm.The peak responsivity of the RCE detector at 1.344μm is 1.2mA/W and the full width at half maximum is 12nm.Compared with the conventional p-i-n photodetector,the responsivity of RCE detector is enhanced 8 times.

Design and Fabrication of Thermo-Optic 4×4 Switching Matrix in Silicon-on-Insulator

A rearrangeable nonblocking thermo-optic 4×4 switching matrix,which consists of five 2×2 multimode interference-based Mach-Zehnder interferometer(MMI-MZI) switch elements，is designed and fabricated.The minimum and maximum excess loss for the matrix are 6.6 and 10.4dB,respectively.The crosstalk in the matrix is measured to be between －12 and －19.8dB.The switching speed of the matrix is less than 30μs.The power consumption for the single switch element is about 330mW.

Fabrication of a SOI Based Channel-shifted Multimode Interference Coupler

A silicon-on-insulator based channel-shifted multimode interference coupler is designed and fabricated. A two dimensional beam propagation method is used to analyze the dependence of coupler′s performances on the width and length of the multimode waveguide. The device fabricated has a power shift ratio of 73 and an excess loss of about 2.2 dB. An enhancement of fabrication accuracies could further improve the coupler performances.

Design and Fabrication of Ultracompact 3-dB MMI Coupler in Silicon-on-Insulator

An ultracompact 3-dB coupler is designed and fabricated in silicon-on-insulator,based on 12 line tapered multimode interference(MMI) coupler.Comparing with the conventional straigth MMI coupler,the device is-40% shorter in length.The device exhibits uniformity of 1.3dB and excess loss of 2.5dB

Fabrication of Windowed Very-Small-Aperture Laser Diodes

A windowed very-small-aperture laser 9VSAL0 source for use in high-resolution near field optical data storage is fabricated. The windowed regions are introduced to avoid shorting the pn junction with metal coating and suppress the COD effect. It facilitates producing VSAL by simplified technology and improves the laser performance. A VSAL with 400nm small sperture is demonstrated by focused ion beam (FIB0 and the output power is 0.3mW at 31mA.

Fabrication of Silicon Condenser Microphone Using Oxidized Porous Silicon as Sacrificial Layer

A new technique to fabricate silicon condenser microphone is presented. The technique is based on the use of oxidized porous silicon as sacrificial layer for the air gap and the heavy p~+-doping silicon of approximately 15μm thickness for the stiff backplate. The measured sensitivity of the microphone fabricated with this technique is in the range from -45dB (5.6mV/Pa) to -55dB (1.78mV/Pa) under the frequency from 500Hz to 10kHz, and shows a gradual increase at high frequency. The cut-off frequency is above 20kHz.

Application of Wet Chemical Etching in Fabrication Process of GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Dot Arrays

于2010-11-23批量导入

Fabrication of semiconductor optical amplifiers and a novel gain measuring technique

The design and fabrication of 1550 nm semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) and the characteristics of the fabricated SOA are reported. A novel gain measurement technique based on the integrations of the product of emission spectrum and a phase function over one mode interval is proposed for Fabry-Perot semiconductor lasers.

Fabrication of 1.3 mu m Si-based MEMS tunable optical filter

In this paper we report the fabrication of 1.3 mum Si-based MEMS tunable optical filter, by surface micromaching. Through wet etching of polyimide sacrificial layer, a tunable Fabry-Perot filter was successfully fabricated. We make the capacitance measurement of the prototype device, compare the experimental curve with the theoretical one, and explain the difference between them.