Progress in micromachining sensor of compound semiconductors.

Progress in Antimonide Based III-V Compound Semiconductors and Devices

In recent years, the narrow bandgap antimonide based compound semiconductors (ABCS) are widely regarded as the first candidate materials for fabrication of the third generation infrared photon detectors and integrated circuits with ultra-high speed and ultra-low power consumption. Due to their unique bandgap structure and physical properties, it makes a vast space to develop various novel devic...

Compound Semiconductors

Hydrogen in compound semiconductors

Hydrogen can be inadvertently introduced at any of several steps in the fabrication of optoelectronic devices. The most common consequence of hydrogenation is the passivation of dopant impurities, which leads to a decrease in the electrical conductivity of the material. The most successfully applied experimental technique for directly determining the involvement of hydrogen has been infrared-ab...

Bacteria Inside Semiconductors as Potential Sensor Elements: Biochip Progress

It was discovered at the beginning of this Century that living bacteria-and specifically the extremophile Pseudomonas syzgii-could be captured inside growing crystals of pure water-corroding semiconductors-specifically germanium-and thereby initiated pursuit of truly functional "biochip-based" biosensors. This observation was first made at the inside ultraviolet-illuminated walls of ultrapure w...

Gunn Effect in Compound Semiconductors

A theoretical and experimental study of the Gunn effect is presented. It appears that this effect, originally observed by Gunn as a time variation in the current through ohmic samples of n-GaAs when the sample voltage exceeded a critical value, can be accounted for by the transferred electron model of Ridley and Watkins. This model is based on a transfer of electrons from a low-mass, high-mobil...