Electrically tunable white-color electroluminescence from Si-implanted silicon nitride thin film

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 20439-20444

  Cen, Z H ^a   Chen, T P ^a   Liu, Z ^a   Liu, Y ^b   Ding, L ^a   Yang, M ^a   Wong, J I ^a   Yu, S F ^a   Goh, W P ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMPOSITE FILMS; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; LIGHT; SILICON; SILICON NITRIDE; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; INJECTION CONDITIONS; INJECTION CURRENTS; INTENSITY RATIO; LIGHT EMITTERS; SI-BASED; SILICON NITRIDE MATRIX; SILICON NITRIDE THIN FILMS; VIOLET BANDS; WHITE LIGHT; YELLOW BANDS;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

SILICON; SILICON DERIVATIVE; SILICON NITRIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR;

COLOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; SEMICONDUCTORS; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 77957008874     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.020439     Document Type: Article

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