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Passivation of InGaAs/GaAs Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers by Amorphous GaAs Deposition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Hyo-Hoon Park ,
Byueng-Su Yoo ,
Min Soo Park ,
Jaejin Lee ,
Hae Gwon Lee ,
El-Hang Lee ,
Jae-Heon Shin  and
Yong Hee Lee
Hyo-Hoon Park
Affiliation:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Taejon 305–600, Korea
Byueng-Su Yoo
Affiliation:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Taejon 305–600, Korea
Min Soo Park
Affiliation:
Visiting from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Jaejin Lee
Affiliation:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Taejon 305–600, Korea
Hae Gwon Lee
Affiliation:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Taejon 305–600, Korea
El-Hang Lee
Affiliation:
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Taejon 305–600, Korea
Jae-Heon Shin
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon 305–701, Korea
Yong Hee Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Taejon 305–701, Korea
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Abstract

We report for the first time a successful application of semi-insulating amorphous GaAs layer for surface passivation of index-guided vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers. The amorphous GaAs layers on ion-beam-etched active region and mirror layers provide a significant improvement, more than 20%, in the threshold current density and differential quantum efficiency. The improvement of these performances is attributed to low defect density at the surface of active layers induced by amorphous GaAs.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 378: Symposium B – Defect and Impurity-Engineered Semiconductors and Devices , 1995 , 1013
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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