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Integrated circuit comprising an active optical device having an energy band engineered superlattice

  • US 7,432,524 B2
  • Filed: 09/09/2004
  • Issued: 10/07/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An integrated circuit comprising:

  • at least one active optical device comprising a superlattice including a plurality of stacked groups of layers;

    each group of layers of said superlattice comprising a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion and an energy band-modifying layer thereon, said energy-band modifying layer comprising at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions, and at least some semiconductor atoms from opposing semiconductor portions being chemically bound together with the chemical bonds traversing the at least one non-semiconductor monolayer therebetween, the non-semiconductor selected from the group consisting of at least one of oxygen, nitrogen, fluorine, and carbon; and

    a waveguide coupled to said at least one active optical device.

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