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Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 50, Issue 10, 1004002(2021)

Research Progress on the Growth of Novel Silicon-based IV Group Alloy Materials and Optoelectronic Devices（Invited）

Jun ZHENG1...2,*, Xiangquan LIU1,2, Mingming LI1,2, Zhi LIU1,2, Yuhua ZUO1,2, Chunlai XUE1,2, and Buwen CHENG12 |Show fewer author(s)

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¹State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics，Institute of Semiconductors，Chinese Academy of Sciences，Beijing 100083，China

²Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering，University of Chinese Academy of Sciences，Beijing 100049，China

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Jun ZHENG, Xiangquan LIU, Mingming LI, Zhi LIU, Yuhua ZUO, Chunlai XUE, Buwen CHENG. Research Progress on the Growth of Novel Silicon-based IV Group Alloy Materials and Optoelectronic Devices（Invited）[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2021, 50(10): 1004002

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Received: Jul. 21, 2021

Accepted: Aug. 20, 2021

Published Online: Nov. 3, 2021

The Author Email: ZHENG Jun (zhengjun@semi.ac.cn)

DOI:10.3788/gzxb20215010.1004002

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