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Ge-on-Si plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition for low cost photodetectors

Ge-on-Si plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition for low cost photodetectors
Ge-on-Si plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition for low cost photodetectors
The development of low-thermal-budget Ge-on-Si epitaxial growth for the fabrication of low-cost Ge-on-Si devices is highly desirable for the field of silicon photonics. At present, most Ge-on-Si growth techniques require high growth temperatures, followed by cyclic annealing at temperatures >800 °C, often for a period of several hours. Here, we present a low-temperature (400 °C) low-cost plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) Ge-on-Si growth study and, subsequently, fabricate a high-speed zero-bias 12.5-Gb/s waveguide integrated photodetector with a responsivity of 0.1 A/W at a wavelength of 1550 nm. This low-energy device demonstrates the feasibility of the PECVD method for the fabrication of low-cost low-thermal-budget Ge-on-Si devices.
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Littlejohns, C.G., Khokhar, A.Z., Thomson, D.J., Hu, Y., Basset, L., Reynolds, Scott, Mashanovich, G.Z., Reed, G.T. and Gardes, F.Y. (2015) Ge-on-Si plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition for low cost photodetectors. IEEE Photonics Journal, 7 (4), 1-8. (doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2015.2456069).

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The development of low-thermal-budget Ge-on-Si epitaxial growth for the fabrication of low-cost Ge-on-Si devices is highly desirable for the field of silicon photonics. At present, most Ge-on-Si growth techniques require high growth temperatures, followed by cyclic annealing at temperatures >800 °C, often for a period of several hours. Here, we present a low-temperature (400 °C) low-cost plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) Ge-on-Si growth study and, subsequently, fabricate a high-speed zero-bias 12.5-Gb/s waveguide integrated photodetector with a responsivity of 0.1 A/W at a wavelength of 1550 nm. This low-energy device demonstrates the feasibility of the PECVD method for the fabrication of low-cost low-thermal-budget Ge-on-Si devices.

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Accepted/In Press date: 9 July 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 13 July 2015
Published date: August 2015
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 378979
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/378979
ISSN: 1943-0655
PURE UUID: 4e7bbae5-5587-4a1a-ae12-5c4bcefc58d0
ORCID for F.Y. Gardes: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1400-3272

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Date deposited: 21 Jul 2015 13:16
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Author: A.Z. Khokhar
Author: D.J. Thomson
Author: Y. Hu
Author: L. Basset
Author: Scott Reynolds
Author: G.T. Reed
Author: F.Y. Gardes ORCID iD

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