Electronic structures study of silicon, tin and their alloy

• Main Author: Tan, Eugene ZhiWei.
• Other Authors: Fan Weijun
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Optics, optoelectronics, photonics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/18020
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Efforts to improve the optical performance of the indirect bandgap semiconductor silicon (Si) has been a major subject of research in the field of silicon photonics due to the promising applications of silicon based light emitters and detectors for optical communication. A simulation on the silicon-...