Reduced Dislocation of GaAs Layer Grown on Ge-Buffered Si (001) Substrate Using Dislocation Filter Layers for an O-Band InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Narrow-Ridge Laser

Abstract

The development of the low dislocation density of the Si-based GaAs buffer is considered the key technical route for realizing InAs/GaAs quantum dot lasers for photonic integrated circuits. To prepare the high-quality GaAs layer on the Si substrate, we employed an engineered Ge-buffer on Si, used thermal cycle annealing, and introduced filtering layers, e.g., strained-layer superlattices, to control/reduce the threading dislocation density in the active part of the laser. In this way, a low defect density of 2.9 × 107 cm−2 could be achieved in the GaAs layer with a surface roughness of 1.01 nm. Transmission electron microscopy has been applied to study the effect of cycling, annealing, and filtering layers for blocking or bending threading-dislocation into the InAs QDs active region of the laser. In addition, the dependence of optical properties of InAs QDs on the growth temperature was also investigated. The results show that a density of 3.4 × 1010 InAs quantum dots could be grown at 450 °C, and the photoluminescence exhibits emission wavelengths of 1274 nm with a fullwidth at half-maximum (FWHM) equal to 32 nm at room temperature. The laser structure demonstrates a peak at 1.27 μm with an FWHM equal to 2.6 nm under a continuous-wave operation with a threshold current density of ∼158 A/cm2 for a 4-μm narrow-ridge width InAs QD device. This work, therefore, paves the path for a monolithic solution for photonic integrated circuits when III−V light sources (which is required for Si photonics) are grown on a Ge-platform (engineered Ge-buffer on Si) for the integration of the CMOS part with other photonic devices on the same chip in near future.

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