Semiconductor and Integrated

Optoelectronics

SIOE ‘14

Cardiff, Wales 29th April – 1st May 2014

Programme and Abstracts

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Conference Locations (see map on the opposite page)

Tues 29th April: Queens Buildings site CF24 3AA (North and Trevithick Buildings)

Queen's Buildings, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, CF24 3AA

NCP parking is available in the Knox Road car park (we cannot reimburse costs)

Registration will be outside room N1.04 (first floor – up one set of stairs and turn right).

1st session will be in room N3-28 (third floor – 3 flight of stairs and turn left)

Poster session Room 0.07 Trevithick building (ground floor – left from main entrance and towards back of building)

Wed 30th April and Thurs 1st May: Law Building CF10 3AT 0.22 for talks and Aberdare Hall CF10 3UP for refreshments

Law Building, Museum Avenue (entrance on opposite side of building - Park Place) CF10 3AT 0.22 is immediately to the right of the entrance.

On street pay and display on Museum Avenue (we cannot reimburse costs)

Cardiff Castle for Banquet – CF10 3RB

See Map – arrows indicate approximate position of entrances

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Final Programme

Tuesday 29th April 2014

14-30 Onwards REGISTRATION: North Building Foyer

14-45 Refreshments Room N3.23

15-25 North Building N3.28 – Welcome

15-30 “Opportunities for Research through the EPSRC National Centre for III-V Technologies”

Jon Heffernan

EPSRC National Centre for III-V Technologies

15-45 Session 1: North Building N3.28 – Photovoltaics

15-45 “Investigation on the Photovoltaic Performance of Quantum Dot Solar Cells through Self-Consistent Modeling of Transport and Quantum Dot Carrier Dynamics”

Federica Cappelluti, Ariel P. Cedola and Mariangela Gioannini

Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24,10129, Torino, Italy.

Faculty of Engineering, National University of La Plata, La Plata 1900,Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

16-00 “Research of Ternary GaAsP NW Growth and Its Application in

High-Efficiency Solar Cells”

Yunyan Zhang, Jiang Wu, Martin Aagesen, Jeppe Holm, Henrik I. Jørgensen, Sabina Hatch and

Huiyun Liu

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, UK

GaAsP Solar ApS, Gregersensvej 7, Taastrup DK-2630, Denmark

16-15 “A comparison of the electrical performance characteristics of commercially available multi-junction Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) cells”

Tracy Sweet, Dongze Yuan, Chris Dunscombe and Nick Jenkins.

The Institute of Energy, Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA, Wales, UK.

School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, Wales, UK.

16-30 “Phonon recycling – cool carrier solar cells with hot-carrier effects: a theoretical investigation on the effects of hot-carrier assisted photon absorption and indirect two-photon absorption on the performance of solar cells”

Chin-Yi Tsai

Department of Applied Physics, National University of Kaohsiung, 811 Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

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16-45 “Voltage-recovery in quantum dot solar cells with direct doping”

Jiang Wu, Phu Lam, Sabina Hatch, Mingchu Tang, Vitaliy G. Dorogan, Yuriy I. Mazur,

Gregory J. Salamo, Iñigo Ramiro, Alwyn Seeds, Huiyun Liu

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place,

London WC1E 7JE, United Kingdom.

Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA.

Instituto de Energía Solar, ETSI Telecomunicación, Avda. Complutense 30, 28040, Madrid, Spain.

17-00 “Fabrication and characterisation of dye sensitised solar cell under different light intensities“

Lourdes Márquez-García, Jorge García-Cañadas and Gao Min

School of Engineering, Cardiff University, The Parade, CF24 3AA Cardiff, UK

17-15 “Robust Technique for Evaluation of the Five DC Parameters of Photovoltaic Converters“

Jayanta Mukherjee, Scott Jarvis and Stephen J. Sweeney

Advanced Technology Institute and Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK

17-30 – 20-00 Trevithick Building Room 0.07 and 0.09

Session 2: Posters and IET Publishing Reception

1) “Eye safe light emission from rare-earths implanted in silicon”

Manon A. Lourenço, R. M. Gwilliam and K. P. Homewood

Advanced Technology Institute, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, United Kingdom

2) “Hybrid plasmonic strip and slot geometries for deep subwavelength waveguiding and lasing”

Lucas Lafone, T. P. H. Sidiropoulos J. M. Hamm and R F Oulton

The Blackett Laboratory, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ UK

3) “Source Location Optimization for Indoor Optical Wireless Communications using Particle Swarm Technique”

Mahmoud W. Eltokhey, K. R. Mahmoud, Saleh S.A Obayya

Center for Photonics and Smart Materials, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Sheikh Zayed District, 6th of October City, Giza, Egypt.

Electronics, Communications, and Computers Department, Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University, Cairo 11439, Egypt.

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4) “Understanding the high temperature threshold increase mechanisms in InP quantum dot lasers”

Makarimi Kasim, Stella N. Elliott, Peter. M. Smowton and Andrey B. Krysa

Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, The Parade, Cardiff, CF24 3AA

EPSRC National Centre for III-V Technologies, University of Sheffield, S1 3JD UK

5) “3D physical modelling of High mobility 2DEG Quantum Well Hall Effect Linear arrays sensors for nanoTesla metrology applications”

Ehsan Ahmad, Mohammadreza Sadeghi, James Sexton and Mohamed Missous

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester, Sackville Street, Manchester M60 1QD, UK

6) “Electrical properties of GaInNAs with different Quantum Well Laser diodes”

Maha A. Al-Qarni and Mohammed S. Al-Ghamdi

Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

7) “Electrochemical methods for the characterisation of optoelectronic materials and devices”

Jorge García-Cañadas

School of Engineering, Cardiff University, The Parade, CF24 3AA Cardiff, UK

8) “Proton irradiation of carbon implanted silicon for the efficient production of the lasing G-centre”

D. D. Berhanuddin, M. A. Lourenço, N. J. Rolfe, R. M. Gwilliam and K. P. Homewood

Advanced Technology Institute, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, United Kingdom

9) “Highly efficient directional coupling using a compact plasmonic-photonic coupler for integrated silicon photonic circuits”

T. P. H. Sidiropoulos, Michael P. Nielsen, T. R. Roschuk, S. A. Maier, and R. F. Oulton

Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK

10) “Improved Wettability of SU8 for Micro-Fluidic Applications”

Angela Sobiesierski, R. Thomas, D. Barrow and P.M. Smowton

School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, The Parade, CF24 3AA Cardiff, UK

School of Engineering, Cardiff University, The Parade, CF24 3AA Cardiff, UK

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Wednesday 30th April 2014

8-30 Room 0.22 Law Building – Session 3: Waveguides, splitters, filters – towards integration

8-30 “Optical loss measurements at 780 nm for III-V semiconductor single-mode, polarisation-maintaining waveguides for cold atom sensors”

Jessica O. Maclean, Mark T. Greenaway, Richard P. Campion, T. Mark Fromhold, Anthony J. Kent and Christopher J. Mellor

School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD

8-45 “Correction of phase distortion after transmission of orbital angular momentum modes in optical fibre”

Xuyang Wang and Siyuan Yu

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TR, UK

9-00 “Monolithic Waveguide Integration of Nanopillar Photonic Devices”

Adam C. Scofield and Diana L. Huffaker

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles

9-15 “Bandwidth Studies on a 1.4 m Long Multimode Polymer Spiral Waveguide”

Jian Chen, Nikos Bamiedakis, Richard V. Penty, Ian H. White, P. Westbergh, A. Larsson

Centre for Photonic Systems, Electrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FA, United Kingdom

Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden

9-30 “Mode Purity for Integrated OAM Beam Emitter”

Kenan CICEK, Xinlun CAI, Siyuan YU

Photonics group, Merchant Venturers School of Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol UK

9-45 “Optimization of Vertically Coupled Add/Drop Ring Resonator Based Filter”

Riyadh Mansoor, Hugh Sasse, and Alistair Duffy

Faculty of Technology, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

Ministry of Industry and Minerals, Iraq

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Session 3:– continued

10-00 “Towards high-extinction integrated optical Filters for silicon quantum photonics technologies”

Mateusz Piekarek, Damien Bonneau, Joshua W. Silverstone, Michael J. Strain,

Marc Sorel, Robert H. Hadeld, Mike G. Tanner, Chandra M. Natarajan, Val Zwiller,

Sanders Dorenbos, Jeremy L. O'Brien and Mark G. Thompson

Centre for Quantum Photonics, H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory & Department of Electrical and

Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, Merchant Venturers Building, Bristol BS8 1UB, UK

Institute of Photonics, The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NW, UK

School of Engineering, James Watt South Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK

E. L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, TU Delft, 2628CJ Delft, The Netherlands

10-15 “Monolithically Integrated Optical Encoder on GaAs”

Wyn Meredith, Andrew McKee, David McKendrick, Iain Eddie, Graeme Cunningham,

Matt Kidd, Nick Weston

Compound Semiconductor Technologies, Hamilton International Technology Park, Blantyre, Glasgow

Renishaw Plc, Heriot-Watt Research Park, Riccarton, Edinburgh

10-30 Coffee/ Tea Aberdare Hall

11-00 Room 0.22 Law Building – Session 4: Detectors

11-00 “InGaAs/InAlAs Single Photon Avalanche Diode at 1550 nm”

Xiao Meng, Chee Hing Tan, Simon J Dimler, and Jo Shien Ng

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sir Frederick Mappin Building, Mappin Street, S1 3JD, U.K

11-15 “Optimisation of p-contact grid geometry for mid-infrared photodiodes”

Laura Meriggi, M. J. Steer, I. G. Thayne, C. MacGregor, C. N. Ironside, M. Sorel

Electronic and Nanoscale Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, G20 8QQ Glasgow UK

Quantum Device Solutions, The West of Scotland Science Park, Block 7 Kelvin Campus, G20 0TH Glasgow UK

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Session 4:– continued

11-30 “Germanium-on-Silicon Single Photon Avalanche Diodes for Communications Wavelengths”

Konur Mustafa and R W Kelsall

School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds

11-45 “Nanopillar Optical Antenna Avalanche Detectors: 3D nanoscale electric fields for high speed, low noise avalanche gain”

Pradeep Senanayake, Alan Farrell, Diana Huffaker

Dept. of Electrical Engineering and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles

12-00 “Comparison of APD and PIN-Based 4 Gbit/s PAM-16 LED-POF Link”

Xin Li, J. L. Wei, N. Bamiedakis, R. V. Penty, I. H. White

Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA, UK

12-15 “Coherent Receiver Chip for 100G DP-QPSK”

M. Florjańczyk, S. Ristic, Michael Lebby, B. Musk, W. S. Ring

OneChip Photonics Inc., 495 March Road, Suite 200, Ottawa, ON, Canada K2K 3G1

University of Glyndwr, Mold Rd, Wrexham, LL11 2AW, United Kingdom

12-30 Lunch Aberdare Hall

13-45 Room 0.22 Law Building Session 5: Amplifiers and Emitters

13-45 "Gain, amplified spontaneous emission and noise figure of InGaAsP SOA "

Simone Mazzucato, M. Achouche, C. Caillaud, R. Brenot, X. Marie, T. Amand, H. Carrère, M. J. Connelly

LPCNO, INSA-UPS-CNRS, 135 avenue de Rangueil, F-31400 Toulouse, France

GIE III-V Lab, Route de Nozay, F-91460 Marcoussis, France

Optical Communications Research Group, Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, Ireland

14-00 "GaInSb Type-I Quantum Well Lasers for the 3-4µm Spectral Range"

Michael Thompson and A. Krier

Department of Physics, Lancaster University, LA1 4YB

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14-15 "Wavelength and polarisation control of quantum cascade lasers"

Thomas J. Slight, Devnath Dhirhe, Wyn Meredith, and Charles N. Ironside

CST Global Ltd, Hamilton International Technology Park, Blantyre, Glasgow G72 0BN, UK

School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8LT, UK

14-30 " Experimental analysis of electrical injection Ga(AsBi)/(AlGa)As single quantum well laser"

Patrick E. Harnedy, C. A. Broderick, R. J. Manning, E. P. O'Reilly

Tyndall National Institute, Lee Maltings, Dyke Parade, Cork, Ireland and

Department of Physics, University College Cork, Ireland

14-45 "An Electrically Pumped Silicon Photonic Crystal Near-infrared Thermal Emitter Based on Highly Doped SOI Wafer"

Bryan J. O’Regan, T. F. Krauss

Department of Physics, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom

15-00 " InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot Laser Monolithically Grown on Silicon Substrates with InAlAs/GaAs Dislocation Filter Layers"

Mingchu Tang, Siming Chen, Jiang Wu, Qi Jiang, Vitaliy G. Dorogan, Mourad Benamara, Yuriy

I. Mazur, Gregory J. Salamo, Alwyn Seeds, and Huiyun Liu

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Torrington Place, University College London, London, WC1E 7JE, UK

Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA

15-15 "Effect of Gallium Concentration in the Quantum Well on the Threshold Current Temperature Dependence of InP Quantum Dot Lasers”

Makarimi Kasim, Stella N. Elliott, Peter. M. Smowton, and Andrey B. Krysa

Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, The Parade, Cardiff, CF24 3AA UK

EPSRC National Centre for III-V Technologies, University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD UK

15-30 “Experimental Study of Tapered Ridge Waveguide Effect on the Far-field Characteristics of 1310 nm InP Semi-conductor Lasers”

Horacio I. Cantú, A. McKee, I. Eddie, and A. E. Kelly

CST-Global Ltd., Hamilton, G72 0BN, UK

School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Rankine Building, G12 8LT, UK

15-45 Tea / Coffee Aberdare Hall

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16-15 Room 0.22 Law Building Session 6: Dynamics

16-15 "Investigation of a Cross-Gain Modulation (XGM) in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA) Based on a Quantum Dot-in-a-Well (QDWELL) Structure"

Y. Ben Ezra, Boris I. Lembrikov

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Holon Institute of Technology, 52 Golomb Str., P.O.B. 305, Holon 58102, Israel”

16-30 “Experimental bifurcation-cascade diagram of an external-cavity semiconductor laser”

Byungchil Kim, Nianqiang Li, A. Locquet, David S. Citrin

Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0250 USA

UMI 2958 Georgia Tech-CNRS, Georgia Tech Lorraine, 2 Rue Marconi F-57070, Metz, France

Centers for Information Photonics and Communications, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031 China

16-45 “Rate equation analysis of randomly populated mode locked InAs quantum dot lasers”

Ian O’Driscoll, P. Finch, P. Blood, P. M. Smowton, A. Sobiesierski, R. M. Gwilliam

Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Centre for Advanced Photonics and Process Analysis, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland

School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, U.K.

Advanced Technology Institute, FEPS, University of Surrey, Guilford, GU2 7XH, U.K.

17-00 “Controlled switching of ultrafast circular polarization oscillations in spin-polarized vertical-cavity

surface-emitting lasers”

Markus Lindemann, Henning Höpfner, Nils C. Gerhardt, and Martin R. Hofmann

Photonics and Terahertz Technology, Ruhr-University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany

17-15 “High brightness picosecond pulse source by repetitively gain-switching a strongly asymmetric

waveguide laser diode”

B.S. Ryvkin, Eugene A. Avrutin, J.T. Kostamovaara, D.V. Kuksenkov

A.F.Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia

Department of Electronics, University of York, York YO10, 5DD, UK

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, FIN-90014, Oulu, Finland

Corning Inc, SP-AR-01-2, Corning, NY 14831, USA

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18-00 Cardiff Castle: Welcome followed by Dinner

Thursday 1st May

8-45 Room 0.22 Law Building – Session 7: Devices from Non-Linear Optics

8-45 “Room Temperature Terahertz Emission by Difference Frequency Generation in Quantum Cascade Lasers”

Frederic Demmerle, Karun Vijayraghavan, Min Jang, Aiting Jiang, Gerhard Boehm,

Mikhail Belkin and Markus-Christian Amann

Walter Schottky Institut – 85748 – Garching – GERMANY

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin – 78758 – Austin – USA

9-00 “Highly Birefringent Index Guiding Silica Liquid Crystal Photonic Crystal Fiber”

Rasha A. H. Ali, Mohamed Farhat, O. Hameed, Saleh S. A. Obayya, Jala El-Azab, Wessameldin S. Abdelaziz

Engineering Applications of Lasers Department, National Institute of Laser Enhanced Sciences, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.

Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Muthana University, Muthana, Iraq.

Centre for Photonics and Smart Materials, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Sheikh Zayed District, 6th of October City, Giza, Egypt.

Mathematics and Engineering Physics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

9-15 “Wave Mixing Effects in a 1525 nm InAs/InP Optically-Injected Quantum Dot Distributed Feedback Laser”

Heming Huang, C. Wang, K. Schires, P. Poole, J. Even, and F. Grillot

Telecom Paristech, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, CNRS LTCI, 46 Rue Barrault, 75013 Paris, France

Université Européenne de Bretagne, INSA, CNRS FOTON, 20 Av. des Buttes de Coësmes, 35708 Rennes, France

NRC Canada, 1200 Montreal Road, Building M-50, Room 162, Ottawa, Canada

9-30 “Naturally Quasi-Phase-Matched Second Harmonic Generation in doubly resonant LN microdisk resonator”

Michalis Evagorou and Siyuan Yu

Photonics group, Merchant Venturers School of Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol UK

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Session 7:– continued

9-45 “Novel Design of Photonic Crystal Fiber for Terahertz Applications”

Muhammad H. Muhammad, Mohamed Farhat, O. Hameed, A. M. Heikal, Saleh S.A.Obayya

Centre for Photonics and Smart Materials, Zewail City of Science and Technology, Sheikh Zayed District, 6th of October City, Giza, Egypt.

Mathematics and Engineering Physics Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

10-00 Aberdare Hall Coffee

10-30 Room 0.22 Law Building – Session 8: Material and Devices development

10-30 “Core-shell light emitters created via epitaxial overgrowth of III-nitrides on high-aspect-ratio GaN nanorod arrays”

E. Le Boulbar, P.R. Edwards, I. Girgel, C. Lewins, D.W.E. Allsopp, R.W. Martin, Philip A. Shields

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, BA2 7AY

Department of Physics, SUPA, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, G4 0NG

10-45 “Gallium Nitride for Nanophotonic Sensing Applications”

Y.Wang , Z.Shi, X.Li, M. Lopez-Garcia, L. Chen, N.A. Hueting, M. Zhang, H.Zhu, T.Wang, G.Ternent and Martin J. Cryan

11-00 "Developing the optically pumped stripe length characterisation method"

Rob Thomas and P. M. Smowton

School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK

11-15 “Characterization of InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes using fluorescence microscopy”

S. Presa, G.Kozlowski, P. P. Maaskant, P. Parbrook, M. Kappers, C. Humphreys and B. Corbett

Tyndall National Institute, Lee Maltings, University Collage Cork, Cork, Ireland

Dep. Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK

11-30 Colour management of InGaN/GaN based monolithic two-wavelength LEDs”

A. Yadav, M. Zulonas, I.E. Titkov, V.L. Zerova, K.A. Fedorova, A.F. Tsatsulnikov, W.V. Lundin, A.V. Sakharov, G.S.Sokolovskii and E.U. Rafailov

Photonics & Nanoscience Group, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET, United Kingdom

Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, 26 Polytechnicheskaya Str., St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia

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11-45 “Dual-λ QD lasers with tuneable difference-wavelength”

Sam Shutts, P.M. Smowton, A.B. Krysa

School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK.

EPSRC National Centre for III-V Technologies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 3JD”

12-00 " Properties of GaBiAs/(Al)GaAs based near-infrared laser diodes with up to 4.4% bismuth grown by MOVPE"

Igor P. Marko, S. R. Jin, K. Hild, Z. Batool and S. J. Sweeney, P. Ludewig, N. Knaub, W. Stolz, and K. Volz

Advanced Technology Institute and Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK

Material Science Center and Faculty of Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35032 Marburg, Germany

12-15 “Single Photon Centres in Silicon Doped with Chalcogen Double Donors”

Stephen A. Lynch, Yuri A. Astrovy, Valentina B. Shumany, Leonid M. Portsely, and Anatoly N. Lodyginy

School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA, United Kingdom

Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Politekhnicheskaya 26, St. Petersburg, Russia

12-30 Aberdare Hall Lunch

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