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| 20130099357 | STRAIN COMPENSATED REO BUFFER FOR III-N ON SILICON - A method of fabricating a rare earth oxide buffered III-N on silicon wafer including providing a crystalline silicon substrate, depositing a rare earth oxide structure on the silicon substrate including one or more layers of single crystal rare earth oxide, and depositing a layer of single crystal III-N material on the rare earth oxide structure so as to form an interface between the rare earth oxide structure and the layer of single crystal III-N material. The layer of single crystal III-N material produces a tensile stress at the interface and the rare earth oxide structure has a compressive stress at the interface dependent upon a thickness of the rare earth oxide structure. The rare earth oxide structure is grown with a thickness sufficient to provide a compressive stress offsetting at least a portion of the tensile stress at the interface to substantially reduce bowing in the wafer. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130214282 | III-N ON SILICON USING NANO STRUCTURED INTERFACE LAYER - A method of fabricating a layer of single crystal semiconductor material on a silicon substrate including providing a crystalline silicon substrate and epitaxially depositing a nano structured interface layer on the substrate. The nano structured interface layer has a thickness up to a critical thickness. The method further includes epitaxially depositing a layer of single crystal semiconductor material in overlying relationship to the nano structured interface layer. Preferably, the method includes the nano structured interface layer being a layer of coherently strained nano dots of selected material. The critical thickness of the nano dots includes a thickness up to a thickness at which the nano dots become incoherent. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130248853 | NUCLEATION OF III-N ON REO TEMPLATES - A method of fabricating a layer of single crystal III-N material on a silicon substrate includes epitaxially growing a REO template on a silicon substrate. The template includes a REO layer adjacent the substrate with a crystal lattice spacing substantially matching the crystal lattice spacing of the substrate and selected to protect the substrate from nitridation. Either a rare earth oxynitride or a rare earth nitride is formed adjacent the upper surface of the template and a layer of single crystal III-N material is epitaxially grown thereon. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130313579 | DILUTE SN-DOPED GE ALLOYS - Detectors based on such Ge(Sn) alloys of the formula Ge | 11-28-2013 |
| 20140053894 | GRADED GeSn ON SILICON - A method of fabricating a solar cell on a silicon substrate includes providing a crystalline silicon substrate, selecting a grading profile, epitaxially growing a template on the silicon substrate including a single crystal GeSn layer using the grading profile to grade Sn through the layer. The single crystal GeSn layer has a thickness in a range of approximately 3 μm to approximately 5 μm. At least two layers of high band gap material are epitaxially and sequentially grown on the template to form at least three junctions. The grading profile starts with the Sn at or near zero with the Ge at zero, the percentage of Sn varies to a maximum mid-area, and reduces the percentage of Sn to zero adjacent an upper surface. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140076390 | III-V SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACE WITH GRADED GeSn ON SILICON - A method of depositing III-V solar collection materials on a GeSn template on a silicon substrate including the steps of providing a crystalline silicon substrate and epitaxially growing a single crystal GeSn layer on the silicon substrate using a grading profile to grade Sn through the layer. The single crystal GeSn layer has a thickness in a range of approximately 3 μm to approximately 5 μm. A layer of III-V solar collection material is epitaxially grown on the graded single crystal GeSn layer. The graded single crystal GeSn layer includes Sn up to an interface with the layer of III-V solar collection material. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140077240 | IV MATERIAL PHOTONIC DEVICE ON DBR - A photonic structure including a substrate of either crystalline silicon or germanium and a multilayer distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) positioned on the substrate. The DBR includes material substantially crystal lattice matching the DBR to the substrate. The DBR includes a plurality of pairs of layers of material including any combination of IV materials and any rare earth oxide (REO). A photonic device including multilayers of single crystal IV material positioned on the DBR and including material substantially crystal lattice matching the DBR to the photonic device. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140077338 | Si-Ge-Sn ON REO TEMPLATE - An electronic device includes IV material grown on a silicon substrate. The device includes a crystalline silicon substrate and a rare earth structure epitaxially grown on the silicon substrate. The rare earth structure includes a layer of a rare earth oxide with electrical insulating characteristics so that the rare earth structure provides electrical insulation from the silicon substrate. A single crystal IV material film is epitaxially grown on the rare earth structure. The single crystal IV material film includes one of crystal lattice matching or crystal lattice mismatching the IV material film to the rare earth structure. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140077339 | DELTA DOPING AT Si-Ge INTERFACE - A IV or III-V device is fabricated on a germanium template on a silicon substrate and includes a thin layer of Ge epitaxially grown on a silicon substrate. The thin layer includes Ge delta doped with Sn at the silicon substrate. A single crystal layer of Ge is epitaxially grown on the thin layer of Ge doped with Sn. A structure including one of IV material and III-V material is epitaxially grown on the single crystal layer of Ge. | 03-20-2014 |
