Electrically Pumped complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide materials nanolasers

摘要标题：电泵浦互补金属氧化物半导体（CMOS）兼容二维过渡金属二硫化物材料纳米激光器（nanolasernon -technical）：该项目解决了芯片级光互连发展的最大挑战。芯片级光互连依靠光学过程而不是电线进行芯片内通信，被认为能够克服现有电互连的所有问题，并大大提高计算机的速度。鉴于计算机在人类社会各个方面的重要性，这个项目对社会的广泛影响是显而易见的。该项目的研究部分整合到多方面的教育和推广活动中，旨在激励学生（高中，本科生和研究生），特别是代表性不足的少数民族，追求科学技术工程和数学（STEM）学科的职业生涯，并旨在加强中学和大学材料科学课程。除了为本科生和研究生提供研究培训外，该教育计划还包括指导高中生参加大学预科科学竞赛，并在高中AP化学课上担任客座讲师。拟议的研究也可能为学生提供独特的机会，以发展扎实的专业知识，这将对他们在科学和工程领域的职业生涯有价值。技术：该项目是开发电泵纳米激光器，在硅基衬底上生长厘米级二维（2D） MoSe2单层。二维材料提供了摆脱晶格匹配要求的机会，使发光材料与硅的激光高质量集成成为可能。它可以集成到任意晶格不匹配的衬底上而不影响晶体质量，因为材料可能仅通过弱范德华力与衬底相互作用，这可以大大放宽晶格匹配的要求。我们将开发可用于在硅衬底上生长厘米级，高质量和均匀的MoSe2单层的技术，并将追求对合成单层的光物理和激光动力学的基本理解。通过利用基本的理解，我们将设计一个具有纳米尺寸的电泵浦cmos兼容的2D MoSe2激光器原型。

Abstract Title: Electrically Pumped complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide materials nanolasersNon-technical: This project addresses the biggest challenge for the development of chip-scale optical interconnects. Chip-scale optical interconnects, which relies on optics process instead of electrical wires for intra-chip communication, is believed able to overcome all the problems of the existing electrical interconnects and substantially improve the speed of computers. The broad impact of this project to society is obvious given the importance of computers at every aspect of human society. The research component of this project is integrated into multifaceted educational and outreach activities that aim to inspire students (high school, undergraduate, and graduate), underrepresented minorities in particular, to pursue careers in the science technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and aim to enhance the secondary school and university curricula in materials science. In addition to providing research training for students at both undergraduate and graduate levels, the education plan includes mentoring high school students to participate in pre-college scientific competitions and guest lectures in high schools AP chemistry classes. The proposed research may also provide students with unique opportunities to develop solid expertise that will be valuable for their careers in science and engineering. Technical: This project is to develop electrically pumped nano-lasers with centimeter-scale two-dimensional (2D) MoSe2 monolayers grown on silicon-based substrates. The 2D materials provide opportunity to break away from the requirement of lattice matching to enable high-quality integration of luminescence materials with silicon for lasing. It can be integrated to substrates with arbitrary lattice mismatch without compromising crystalline quality because the materials may only interact with substrates by weak van der Waals forces, which can substantially relax the requirement of lattice matching. We will develop techniques that can be used to grow centimeter-scale, high-quality, and uniform MoSe2 monolayers on silicon substrates and will pursue fundamental understanding for the photophysics and lasing dynamics of the synthesized monolayers. By leveraging on the fundamental understanding, we will design a prototype electrically pumped CMOS-compatible 2D MoSe2 lasers with nanoscale footprints.