Mid-infrared Semiconductor Optoelectronics

Mid-infrared Semiconductor Optoelectronics

Author: Anthony Krier

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-05-22

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13: 1846282098

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Optoelectronic devices operating in the mid-infrared wavelength range offer applications in a variety of areas from environmental gas monitoring around oil rigs to the detection of narcotics. They could also be used for free-space optical communications, thermal imaging applications and the development of "homeland security" measures. Mid-infrared Semiconductor Optoelectronics is an overview of the current status and technological development in this rapidly emerging area; the basic physics, some of the problems facing the design engineer and a comparison of possible solutions are laid out; the different lasers used as sources for mid-infrared technology are considered; recent work in detectors is reviewed; the last part of the book is concerned with applications. With a world-wide authorship of experts working in many mid-infrared-related fields this book will be an invaluable reference for researchers and graduate students drawn from physics, electronic and electrical engineering and materials science.


Long-Wavelength Infrared Semiconductor Lasers

Long-Wavelength Infrared Semiconductor Lasers

Author: Hong K. Choi

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2004-03-18

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9780471392002

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Long-wavelength Infrared Semiconductor Lasers provides a comprehensive review of the current status of semiconductor coherent sources emitting in the mid-to far-infrared spectrum and their applications. It includes three topics not covered in any previous book: far-infrared emission from photo-mixers as well as from hot-hole lasers, and InP-based lasers emitting beyond two micrometers. Semiconductor lasers emitting at more than two micrometers have many applications such as in trace gas analysis, environmental monitoring, and industrial process control. Because of very rapid progress in recent years, until this book no comprehensive information beyond scattered journal articles is available at present.


Infrared Applications of Semiconductors: Volume 450

Infrared Applications of Semiconductors: Volume 450

Author: M. Omar Manasreh

Publisher:

Published: 1997-03-17

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13:

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This book is unique in that it combines for the first time the infrared detectors and infrared lasers and emitters in one volume. It is merely a step, however, in a very fast-changing field, toward achieving an understanding of novel structures that can be used for high-performance infrared detectors, imaging arrays, infrared lasers and sources. Internationally-known experts discuss recent advances in materials structures, processing and device performances, with presentations crossing materials and discipline boundaries. Recent investigations based on III-V, II-VI and IV bulk semiconductors, quantum wells, and superlattices for long-wavelength infrared detectors, emitters, sources and materials are featured. Topics include: antimonide-related materials and devices; quantum wells and devices; quantum infrared detectors; HgCdTe - materials, devices and processing; nonlinear and parametric oscillator material; interdiffusion in heterostructures and related topics.


Infrared Ellipsometry on Semiconductor Layer Structures

Infrared Ellipsometry on Semiconductor Layer Structures

Author: Mathias Schubert

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2004-11-26

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9783540232490

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The study of semiconductor-layer structures using infrared ellipsometry is a rapidly growing field within optical spectroscopy. This book offers basic insights into the concepts of phonons, plasmons and polaritons, and the infrared dielectric function of semiconductors in layered structures. It describes how strain, composition, and the state of the atomic order within complex layer structures of multinary alloys can be determined from an infrared ellipsometry examination. Special emphasis is given to free-charge-carrier properties, and magneto-optical effects. A broad range of experimental examples are described, including multinary alloys of zincblende and wurtzite structure semiconductor materials, and future applications such as organic layer structures and highly correlated electron systems are proposed.


Optoelectronics

Optoelectronics

Author: Dave Birtalan

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1420067818

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Organized as a mini-encyclopedia of infrared optoelectronic applications, this long awaited new edition of an industry standard updates and expands on the groundbreaking work of its predecessor. Pioneering experts, responsible for many advancements in the field, provide engineers with a fundamental understanding of semiconductor physics and the technical information needed to design infrared optoelectronic devices. Fully revised to reflect current developments in the field, Optoelectronics: Infrared-Visible-Ultraviolet Devices and Applications, Second Edition reviews relevant semiconductor fundamentals, including device physics, from an optoelectronic industry perspective. This easy-reading text provides a practical engineering introduction to optoelectronic LEDs and silicon sensor technology for the infrared, visible, and ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Utilizing a practical and efficient engineering approach throughout, the text supplies design engineers and technical management with quick and uncluttered access to the technical information needed to design new systems.


Infrared Applications of Semiconductors II: Symposium Held in Boston, Massachusetts on December 1-4, 1997

Infrared Applications of Semiconductors II: Symposium Held in Boston, Massachusetts on December 1-4, 1997

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Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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A variety of semiconductor materials have been used to fabricate diode lasers for the mid-infrared. Lasers using the lead salts (e.g., PbSnTe) have been commercially available for sometime. Mid-infrared emitting III-V semiconductors (e.g., InGaAsSb) have superior thermal conductivity, and diode lasers fabricated from these material offer higher powers, of particular interest are the III-V semiconductor laser based on type-II superlattices (e.g., InAs/GaInSb). Among the many unique properties attributed to type-II superlattices are small hole mass, reduced Auger recombination, and less inter-valence band absorption-all important for better lasers. Recent results with Quantum Cascade-type lasers are also very encouraging. This paper summarizes the important semiconductor materials for mid-infrared lasers with emphasis on the type-II superlattices.