Ph.D. Dissertation Defense: Dyan Ali

Wednesday, July 18, 2012
10:30 a.m.
Room 2328, AVW Building
Melanie Levin
301 405 0680
melaniel@umd.edu

ANNOUNCEMENT: Ph.D. Dissertation Defense

Name: Dyan Ali

Committee:

Professor Julius Goldhar, Chair/Advisor

Dr. Christopher J.K. Richardson

Professor Thomas E. Murphy

Professor Neil Goldsman

Professor Lourdes G. Salamanca-Riba, Dean's Representative

Date/Time: Wednesday, July 18th, 2012, at 10:30 AM

Location: Room 2328, AVW Building

Title: SILICON-GERMANIUM PHOTODETECTORS FOR OPTICAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Abstract:

This thesis investigates the design and growth of silicon-germanium p-i-n photodetectors for optical telecommunications applications. Two types of heterostructures are considered: strained silicon-germanium layers grown directly on silicon substrates, and strain-balanced silicon-germanium/silicon superlattice grown on relaxed buffer layers. The heterostructures are designed using existing band structure models and are grown using solid source molecular beam epitaxy (SS-MBE). To facilitate these growths, an atomic absorption spectroscopy- based flux monitor for the silicon source is developed and calibrated. In addition, the development of a substrate preparation procedure for relaxed buffer layers that is compatible with SS-MBE is developed and allows the growth of epitaxial films with low defect densities. P-i-n diodes processed from these films are shown to have low reverse leakage currents densities compared to other competing devices. Photocurrent spectroscopy is used to characterize these structures. A clear reduction in the bandgap of the heterostructures over that of the constituent alloys due to exploitation of the Type-II band offsets in the silicon-germanium material system is demonstrated in both, the strained and strain-balanced photodetectors. Finally, the low leakage current densities are exploited to fabricate devices with noise equivalent powers comparable to or better than competing approaches based on the growth of germanium on silicon substrates.

Audience: Graduate  Faculty 

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