Low Dark Current High Gain InAs Quantum Dot Avalanche Photodiodes Monolithically Grown on Si

Chen, Baile; Wan, Yating; Xie, Zhiyang; Huang, Jian; Zhang, Ningtao; Shang, Chen; Norman, Justin; Li, Qiang; Tong, Yeyu; Lau, Kei May; Gossard, Arthur C.; Bowers, John E.

doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01709

Low Dark Current High Gain InAs Quantum Dot Avalanche Photodiodes Monolithically Grown on Si

Journal Article · Tue Jan 07 23:00:00 EST 2020 · ACS Photonics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01709· OSTI ID:1799136

^[1]; ^[2]; Xie, Zhiyang ^[3]; ^[3]; Zhang, Ningtao ^[3]; Shang, Chen ^[2]; Norman, Justin ^[2]; Li, Qiang ^[4]; Tong, Yeyu ^[5]; Lau, Kei May ^[4]; Gossard, Arthur C. ^[2]; Bowers, John E. ^[2]

Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States); ShanghaiTech Univ. (China); OSTI
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
ShanghaiTech Univ. (China)
Hong Kong Univ. (Hong Kong)
Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States); Hong Kong Univ. (Hong Kong)

Avalanche photodiodes (APDs) on Si operating at optical communication wavelength band are crucial for the Si-based transceiver application. In this paper, we report the first O-band InAs quantum dot (QD) waveguide APDs monolithically grown on Si with a low dark current of 0.1 nA at unit gain and a responsivity of 0.234 A/W at 1.310 μm at unit gain (-5 V). In the linear gain mode, the APDs have a maximum gain of 198 and show a clear eye diagram up to 8 Gbit/s. These QD-based APDs enjoy the benefit of sharing the same epitaxial layers and processing flow as QD lasers, which could potentially facilitate the integration with laser sources on a Si platform.

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Research Organization:: University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)

Grant/Contract Number:: AR0001042

OSTI ID:: 1799136

Journal Information:: ACS Photonics, Journal Name: ACS Photonics Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 7; ISSN 2330-4022

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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