Mid-infrared Optoelectronics: Materials, Devices, and Applications addresses the new materials, devices and applications that have emerged over the last decade, along with exciting areas of research. Sections cover fundamentals, light sources, photodetectors, new approaches, and the application of mid-IR devices, with sections discussing LEDs, laser diodes, and quantum cascade lasers, mid-infrared optoelectronics, emerging research areas, dilute bismide and nitride alloys, Group-IV materials, gallium nitride heterostructures, and new nonlinear materials. Finally, the most relevant applications of mid-infrared devices are reviewed in industry, gas sensing, spectroscopy, and imaging.
This book presents a key reference for materials scientists, engineers and professionals working in R&D in the area of semiconductors and optoelectronics.
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Table of Contents
Part One Fundamentals
1. The physics of mid-infrared semiconductor materials and heterostructures
Part Two Light sources
2. Mid-infrared light-emitting diodes
3. Interband mid-infrared lasers
4. Quantum cascade lasers
5. High-brightness quantum cascade lasers
6. Mid-infrared frequency conversion in quasiphase matched semiconductors
Part Three Photodetectors
7. HgCdTe photodetectors
8. Quantum cascade detectors: A review
9. InAs/GaSb type II superlattices: A developing material system for third generation of IR imaging
10. InAsSb-based photodetectors
Part Four New approaches
11. Dilute bismide and nitride alloys for mid-IR optoelectronic devices
12. Group IV photonics using (Si)GeSn technology toward mid-IR applications
13. Intersubband transitions in GaN-based heterostructures
14. III-V/Si mid-IR photonic integrated circuits
Part Five Application of mid-IR devices
15. Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy for gas sensing applications
16. Mid-infrared gas-sensing systems and applications