Patent · US Expired

Opto-electronic device

US4794606A · kind A · utility

13Cited by
5References
11Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateMar 24, 1988
Grant dateDec 27, 1988
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 24, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01S2302/00
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An opto-electronic device has an atomic layer superlattice semiconductor comprising different semiconductor materials periodically piled up, each material having an atomic layer thickness. The superlattice semiconductor has a bandgap different from an alloy semiconductor having equivalently the same composition as the former. In a semiconductor laser, as clad layers, the atomic layer superlattice semiconductor having equivalently the same composition as a Zn.sub.0.42 Cd.sub.0.58 S alloy semiconductor and a larger bandgap than the later is used, and a ZnSe.sub.0.94 S.sub.0.06 alloy semiconductor as an active layer is located between the cladding layers. The double-hetero structure semiconductor laser thus provided can perform the lasing at 470 nm at room temperature.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.