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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2003
Applicant:
Patrick Abraham, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Patrick Abraham, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Agility Communications, Inc., Goleta, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/00 (2006.01); H01L 21/265 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for reducing surface recombination in an area next to a mesa in devices containing active and passive sections. This is obtained by growing, by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE), a thin epitaxial layer of material with larger bandgap than a waveguide material and preferably smaller surface recombination rate than the waveguide material. This thin layer is preferably non-intentionally doped to avoid creating a surface leakage path, thin enough to allow for carrier to diffuse to and thermalize in the waveguide layer and thick enough to prevent carriers to tunnel through it.