Towards the First Silicon Laser

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Light emitting diodes

   1. High Efficiency Silicon Light Emitting Diodes

      • Martin A. Green, Jianhua Zhao, Aihua Wang, Thorsten Trupke

      Pages 1-10

   2. Dislocation-Based Silicon Light Emitting Devices

      • M. A. Lourenço, M. S. A. Siddiqui, G. Shao, R. M. Gwilliam, K. P. Homewood

      Pages 11-20

   3. Efficient Electroluminescence In Alloyed Silicon Diodes

      • O. B. Gusev, M. S. Bresler, I. N. Yassievich, B. P. Zakharchenya

      Pages 21-28

   4. Light Emitting Devices Based On Silicon Nanocrystals

      • A. Irrera, D. Pacifici, M. Miritello, G. Franzò, F. Priolo, F. Iacona et al.

      Pages 29-43

   5. Optical And Electrical Characteristics Of Leds Fabricated From Si-Nanocrystals Embedded In Sio2

      • B. Garrido, O. GonzÁlez, S. Cheylan, M. LÓpez, A. PÉrez-Rodríguez, C. García et al.

      Pages 45-54

   6. Electroluminescence In Si/Sio2 Layers

      • L. Heikkilä, R. Punkkinen, H.-P. Hedman

      Pages 55-60

   7. Reverse Biased Porous Silicon Light Emitting Diodes

      • S. Lazarouk

      Pages 61-68

   8. Strong Blue Light Emission From Ion Implanted Si/Sio2 Structures

      • W. Skorupa, L. Rebohle, T. Gebel, M. Helm

      Pages 69-78

   9. Si/Ge Nanostructures For Led

      • G. E. Cirlin, V. G. Talalaev, N. D. Zakharov, P. Werner

      Pages 79-88

3. Silicon nanocrystals

   1. Optical Spectroscopy Of Single Quantum Dots

      • Jan Valenta, Jan Linnros, Robert Juhasz, Frank Cichos, JÖrg Martin

      Pages 89-108

   2. Luminescence From Si/Sio2 Nanostructures

      • Yoshihiko Kanemitsu

      Pages 109-122

   3. Electronic And Dielectric Properties Of Porous Silicon

      • D. Kovalev, J. Diener

      Pages 123-130

   4. Silicon Technology Used For Size-Controlled Silicon Nanocrystals

      • M. Zacharias, J. Heitmann, L. X. Yi, E. Wildanger, R. Scholz

      Pages 131-138

   5. Structural And Optical Properties Of Silicon Nanocrystals Embedded In Silicon Oxide Films

      • M. Miu, A. Angelescu, I. Kleps, M. Simion, A. Bragaru

      Pages 139-144

4. Optical gain in silicon nanocrystals

   1. Stimulated Emission In Silicon Nanocrystals Gain Measurement And Rate Equation Modelling

      • L. Dal Negro, M. Cazzanelli, Z. Gaburro, P. Bettotti, L. Pavesi, F. Priolo et al.

      Pages 145-164

   2. Lasing Effects In Ultrasmall Silicon Nanoparticles

      • Munir H. Nayfeh

      Pages 165-180

   3. On Fast Optical Gain In Silicon Nanostructures

      • L. Khriachtchev, M. Räsänen

      Pages 181-190

   4. Experimental Observation Of Optical Amplification In Silicon Nanocrystals

      • M. Ivanda, U. V. Desnica, C. W. White, W. Kiefer

      Pages 191-196

   5. Optical Amplification In Nanocrystalline Silicon Superlattices

      • Philippe M. Fauchet, Jinhao Ruan

      Pages 197-208

Silicon, the leading material in microelectronics during the last four decades, also promises to be the key material in the future. Despite many claims that silicon technology has reached fundamental limits, the performance of silicon microelectronics continues to improve steadily. The same holds for almost all the applications for which Si was considered to be unsuitable. The main exception to this positive trend is the silicon laser, which has not been demonstrated to date. The main reason for this comes from a fundamental limitation related to the indirect nature of the Si band-gap. In the recent past, many different approaches have been taken to achieve this goal: dislocated silicon, extremely pure silicon, silicon nanocrystals, porous silicon, Er doped Si-Ge, SiGe alloys and multiquantum wells, SiGe quantum dots, SiGe quantum cascade structures, shallow impurity centers in silicon and Er doped silicon. All of these are abundantly illustrated in the present book.

• LED
• Laser
• Transistor
• alloy
• crystal
• modeling
• nanoparticle
• photonics
• quantum dot
• spectroscopy

• INFM and Department of Physics, University of Trento, Italy

  Lorenzo Pavesi, Luca Negro

• National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus

  Sergey Gaponenko

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