Mid-infrared Imaging Using Strain-Relaxed GeSn Alloys Grown on 20 nm Ge Nanowires.

Germanium-tin (GeSn) semiconductors are a front-runner platform for compact mid-infrared devices due to their tunable narrow bandgap and compatibility with silicon processing. However, their large lattice parameter has been a major hurdle, limiting the quality of epitaxial layers grown on silicon or germanium substrates. Herein, we demonstrate that 20 nm Ge nanowires (NWs) act as effective compliant substrates to grow extended defect-free GeSn alloys with a composition uniformity over several micrometers along the NW growth axis without significant buildup of the compressive strain.

Ultra-sensitive tandem colloidal quantum-dot photodetectors.

The solution-processed PbSe colloidal quantum-dot (CQD) infrared photodetector with tandem architecture is proposed to address the high dark current issue. The electrical transport mechanism in tandem has been fundamentally changed in which the recombination of carriers at an intermediate layer becomes dominant rather than carriers hopping between nearest neighbors in CQD materials. As a result, the tandem photodetector exhibits ultra-high detectivities of 4.

Monolithic integration of nitride light emitting diodes and photodetectors for bi-directional optical communication.

Design and fabrication of monolithically integrated III-nitride visible light-emitting-diodes (LEDs) and ultraviolet Schottky barrier-photodetectors (SB-PDs) have been proposed and demonstrated. Responsivity up to 0.2  AW(-1) at 365 nm for GaN SB-PDs has been achieved.