Increased efficiency of silicon light-emitting diodes in a standard 1.2-μm silicon complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2133-2141

  Snyman, Lukas W ^a   Aharoni, Herzl ^a,b   Du Plessis, Monuko ^a   Gouws, Rudolph B J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

CMOS technology; Light emitting diodes; Silicon

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000608266     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601792     Document Type: Article

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