Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 5, Issue 1, 82(2012)
High speed optical modulation in Ge quantum wells using quantum confined stark effect
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Yiwen RONG, Yijie HUO, Edward T. FEI, Marco FIORENTINO, Michael R.T. TAN, Tomasz OCHALSKI, Guillaume HUYET, Lars THYLEN, Marek CHACINSKI, Theodore I. KAMINS, James S. HARRIS. High speed optical modulation in Ge quantum wells using quantum confined stark effect[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2012, 5(1): 82
Received: Sep. 16, 2011
Accepted: Nov. 7, 2011
Published Online: Sep. 10, 2012
The Author Email: Yijie HUO (yijiehuo@gmail.com)