ROOM-TEMPERATURE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE OF ERBIUM-DOPED HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS-SILICON

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BRESLER, MS [1 ]
GUSEV, OB [1 ]
KUDOYAROVA, VK [1 ]
KUZNETSOV, AN [1 ]
PAK, PE [1 ]
TERUKOV, EI [1 ]
YASSIEVICH, IN [1 ]
ZAKHARCHENYA, BP [1 ]
FUHS, W [1 ]
STURN, A [1 ]
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[1] UNIV MARBURG,FACHBEREICH PHYS,D-35032 MARBURG,GERMANY
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10.1063/1.115330
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A comparison of the photoluminescence of Er-doped hydrogenated amorphous silicon and crystalline silicon a-Si:H(Er) and c-Si(Er), is presented. It is shown that a-Si:H(Er) exhibits efficient room-temperature photoluminescence at 1.537 mu m which is as strong as the emission from optimized c-Si(Er) at 2 K. Most remarkably, there is practically no temperature quenching of the emission intensity in the range 2-300 K. The experiments suggest that the lifetime connected with the Er-induced emission is considerably shorter in a-Si:H(Er) than in c-Si(Er) which may be responsible for the different dependences of the photoluminescence intensity on the temperature, chopping frequency, and excitation power. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics.
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