Injection dependence of spontaneous radiative recombination in crystalline silicon: Experimental verification and theoretical analysis

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 26, 2006, Pages

  Altermatt, P P ^a   Geelhaar, F ^b,e   Trupke, T ^c   Dai, X ^c   Neisser, A ^c,f   Daub, E ^d  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d SILTRONIC AG   (Germany)

^e ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES   (United States)

^f HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB ATTRACTION; CRYSTALLINE SILICON; ELECTRON-HOLE PAIR CORRELATION FUNCTION; RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CORRELATION THEORY; COULOMB BLOCKADE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PARTICLE BEAM INJECTION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; RADIATION EFFECTS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

SILICON;

EID: 33745602291     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2218041     Document Type: Article

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