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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Manchester : B - Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Spatially correlated erbium and Si nanocrystals in coimplanted SiO2 after a single high temperature anneal
This research was a collaboration between Surrey University in the UK and McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and was aimed at improving the density of optically active erbium in silicon oxide in order to create on-chip amplifiers and lasers for inter-chip communication. The work lead to the award by EPSRC of a £1.5m multicentre grant lead by Manchester (EP/H009817/1) and involving the schools of Engineering at UCL and Surrey University and the School of Physics at Imperial College. It has also been used by the leading international groups in this field, e.g. at Caen, DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-8-39, and Trento, DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.001278.