4 research outputs found
Low-Footprint Optical Interconnect on an SOI Chip Through Heterogeneous Integration of InP-Based Microdisk Lasers and Microdetectors
Compact passive devices in InP membrane on silicon
The high vertical index contrast and the small thickness of thin InP membranes (200nm) bonded with BCB allow the achievement of very small devices. In this paper we will present some performances of such photonic integrated circuit building blocks (wires, 3dB splitters and ring resonators)
Efficiency Enhancement of InP Nanowire Solar Cells by Surface Cleaning
We
demonstrate an efficiency enhancement of an InP nanowire (NW)
axial p–n junction solar cell by cleaning the NW surface. NW
arrays were grown with <i>in situ</i> HCl etching on an
InP substrate patterned by nanoimprint lithography, and the NWs surfaces
were cleaned after growth by piranha etching. We find that the postgrowth
piranha etching is critical for obtaining a good solar cell performance.
With this procedure, a high diode rectification factor of 10<sup>7</sup> is obtained at ±1 V. The resulting NW solar cell exhibits an
open-circuit voltage (<i>V</i><sub>oc</sub>) of 0.73 V,
a short-circuit current density (<i>J</i><sub>sc</sub>)
of 21 mA/cm<sup>2</sup>, and a fill factor (FF) of 0.73 at 1 sun.
This yields a power conversion efficiency of up to 11.1% at 1 sun
and 10.3% at 12 suns