Directly grown III-V quantum dot (QD) laser on on-axis Si (001) is a good candidate for achieving monolithically integrated Si photonics light source. Nowadays, laser structures containing high quality InAs / GaAs QD are generally grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). However, the buffer layer between the on-axis Si (001) substrate and the laser structure are usually grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). In this paper, we demonstrate all MBE grown high-quality InAs/GaAs QD lasers on on-axis Si (001) substrates without using patterning and intermediate layers of foreign material.
The direct growth of a III–V compound semiconductor on Si(001) is an unsolved problem for monolithically integrated photonic devices on the Si platform. Here, we report the growth of a high-quality GaAs layer on on-axis Si(001) substrates by MBE. A single domain GaAs layer was grown on top of a AlGaAs nucleation layer on a Si(001) substrate. By optimizing the Al content of the nucleation layer, anti-phase domains were self-eliminated at the GaAs layer. This result represents a key step towards the realization of monolithically integration of III–V devices on the Si platform using direct epitaxial growth.
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