DocumentCode
1910545
Title
SiO2-nanoparticles enhancing Si band-edge electroluminescence to nearly lasing actions
Author
Lin, Ching-Fuh ; Chung, Peng-Fei ; Chen, Miin-Jang ; Su, Wei-Fang
Author_Institution
Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
fYear
2001
fDate
2001
Firstpage
358
Lastpage
362
Abstract
Electroluminescence (EL) at Si bandgap energy is significantly enhanced with the insertion of SiO2 nanoparticles in the oxide layer of the metal-oxide-silicon (MOS) structures on n-type Si. The nanoparticles have a size of 12 nm. The measured EL efficiency is enhanced to be near 10-4. Furthermore, near-lasing actions like the threshold behavior and resonance modes are observed. The reason is because nanoparticles cause the simultaneous localization of electrons and holes, making the process of the phonon-assisted radiative recombination of electron-hole pairs more like two-particle (exciton-phonon) collision than three-particle (electron-hole-phonon) collision. Thus the probability of radiative recombination increases to enhance EL at Si bandgap energy
Keywords
MIS structures; electroluminescence; electron-hole recombination; elemental semiconductors; energy gap; localised states; nanostructured materials; nanotechnology; silicon; silicon compounds; 0.0001 percent; 12 nm; EL efficiency; MOS structures; Si bandgap energy; SiO2; SiO2 nanoparticles; SiO2-Si; SiO2-nanoparticle enhanced Si band-edge electroluminescence; electroluminescence; electron-hole pair; metal-oxide-silicon structures; n-type Si; nanoparticle size; near-lasing action; oxide layer; phonon-assisted radiative recombination; radiative recombination probability; resonance modes; simultaneous electron-hole localization; three-particle electron-hole-phonon collision; threshold behavior; two-particle exciton-phonon collision; Charge carrier processes; Electroluminescence; Nanoparticles; Photonic band gap; Power engineering and energy; Radiative recombination; Resonance; Semiconductor materials; Substrates; Ultra large scale integration;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Nanotechnology, 2001. IEEE-NANO 2001. Proceedings of the 2001 1st IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location
Maui, HI
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7215-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NANO.2001.966448
Filename
966448
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