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Erbium doped silicon single- and multilayer structures for light-emitting device and laser applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2006

Zakhary F. Krasilnik ,
Boris A. Andreev ,
Denis I. Kryzhkov ,
Ludmila V. Krasilnikova ,
Viktor P. Kuznetsov ,
Dmitry Yu. Remizov ,
Viacheslav B. Shmagin ,
Margarita V. Stepikhova ,
Artem N. Yablonskiy  and
Tom Gregorkievicz
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Zakhary F. Krasilnik
Affiliation:
Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, GSP-105,Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Boris A. Andreev
Affiliation:
Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, GSP-105,Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Denis I. Kryzhkov
Affiliation:
Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, GSP-105,Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Ludmila V. Krasilnikova
Affiliation:
Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, GSP-105,Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Viktor P. Kuznetsov
Affiliation:
Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, GSP-105,Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Dmitry Yu. Remizov
Affiliation:
Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, GSP-105,Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Viacheslav B. Shmagin
Affiliation:
Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, GSP-105,Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Margarita V. Stepikhova
Affiliation:
Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, GSP-105,Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Artem N. Yablonskiy*
Affiliation:
Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, GSP-105,Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
Tom Gregorkievicz
Affiliation:
Van der Waals–Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam, Valckenierstraat 65,NL-1018 XE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nguyen Q. Vinh
Affiliation:
Van der Waals–Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam, Valckenierstraat 65,NL-1018 XE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Wolfgang Jantsch
Affiliation:
Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, Johannes Kepler University Linz,A-4040 Linz-Auhof, Austria
Hanka Przybylinska
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, PL-02 668 Warszawa, Poland
Victor Yu. Timoshenko
Affiliation:
Moscow State University, Physics Faculty, 119992 Moscow, Russia
Denis M. Zhigunov
Affiliation:
Moscow State University, Physics Faculty, 119992 Moscow, Russia
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a) Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: [email protected] This paper was selected as the Outstanding Meeting Paper for the 2005 MRS Spring Meeting Symposium V Proceedings, Vol. 866.
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Abstract

The paper is a brief retrospective review of our contribution to the Si:Er problem in the last decade. It contains a description of the experimental facilities, results of the light-emitting media (Si:Er and Si1−xGex:Er) research, and device applications.

Keywords

infrared (IR) spectroscopymolecular beam epitaxy (MBE)optoelectronic
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Outstanding Meeting Papers
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , March 2006 , pp. 574 - 583
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2006

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