Patent ID: 7446334
Filing Date: 2008-11-04
Classification: H01L

Abstract:
1. An electronic device comprising: first and second integrated circuits comprising respective first and second active optical devices establishing an optical communications link therebetween; said first active optical device comprising a superlattice including a plurality of stacked groups of layers; each group of layers of said superlattice comprising a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion and an energy band-modifying layer thereon, said energy-band modifying layer comprising at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions, the non-semiconductor selected from the group consisting of at least one of oxygen, nitrogen, fluorine, and carbon; wherein at least some semiconductor atoms from opposing base semiconductor portions are chemically bound together with the chemical bonds traversing the at least one non-semiconductor monolayer therebetween.