Visible light emission by a reverse-biased integrated silicon diode

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1091-1094

  Morschbach, M ^a   Oehme, M ^a   Kasper, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Defect engineering; Light emitting diodes (LED); Silicon

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; LIGHT EMISSION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

CURRENT-DEPENDENT ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; REVERSE-BIASED DIODE; SILICON DIODE;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 34247843004     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2007.894247     Document Type: Article

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