Effect of carrier injector size on silicon LED performance

G. Piccolo; Alexeij Y. Kovalgin; Jurriaan Schmitz

Effect of carrier injector size on silicon LED performance

G. Piccolo, Alexeij Y. Kovalgin, Jurriaan Schmitz

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Abstract

Carrier confinement in a high quality silicon volume has been proven to be a requirement for efficient silicon LEDs. Carrier injectors that are able to supply electron-hole pairs to the emitting volume without participating any further to non-radiative recombination play a fundamental role in achieving such a confinement. In previous works this approach has been followed reducing the dimensions of the injectors to few nanometers, thus combining geometrical and potential energy barrier confinement effects for carriers. We investigated the geometrical effect separately simulating p+–p-–n+ diodes, varying the injector size from 10 nm to 1 μm.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 12th Annual Workshop on Semiconductor Advances for Future Electronics and Sensors
Place of Publication	Utrecht, The Netherlands
Publisher	STW
Pages	167-169
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Print)	978-90-73461-62-8
Publication status	Published - 26 Nov 2009
Event	12th Annual Workshop on Semiconductor Advances for Future Electronics and Sensors, SAFE 2009 - Veldhoven, Netherlands Duration: 26 Nov 2009 → 27 Nov 2009 Conference number: 12

Publication series

Name
Publisher	Technology Foundation STW

Conference

Conference	12th Annual Workshop on Semiconductor Advances for Future Electronics and Sensors, SAFE 2009
Abbreviated title	SAFE
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Veldhoven
Period	26/11/09 → 27/11/09

Keywords

METIS-264271
Carrier confinement
SC-SBLE: Silicon-based Light Emitters
Silicon LED
EWI-17065
IR-69056

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Piccolo, G, Kovalgin, AY & Schmitz, J 2009, Effect of carrier injector size on silicon LED performance. in Proceedings of the 12th Annual Workshop on Semiconductor Advances for Future Electronics and Sensors. STW, Utrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 167-169, 12th Annual Workshop on Semiconductor Advances for Future Electronics and Sensors, SAFE 2009, Veldhoven, Netherlands, 26/11/09. <http://eprints.eemcs.utwente.nl/secure2/17065/01/piccolo.pdf>

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