ELECTROLUMINESCENCE AND PHOTOLUMINESCENCE FROM SI1-XGEX ALLOYS GROWN ON (100) SILICON BY MOLECULAR-BEAM EPITAXY

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HOUGHTON, DC
NOEL, JP
ROWELL, NL
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[1] National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa
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MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING B-SOLID STATE MATERIALS FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY | 1991年 / 9卷 / 1-3期
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10.1016/0921-5107(91)90179-Y
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T [工业技术];
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Photoluminescence has been observed from Si1-xGe(x) alloy layers, superlattices and non-periodic multilayers where x was varied from 0 to 0.6. A p-type Si0.82Ge0.18 alloy layer 200 nm thick, grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), has been fabricated into a mesa diode which operated as a light-emitting diode, emitting at 1.4-mu-m at temperatures up to 80 K. This diode was selected from a series of heterostructures which exhibited intense photoluminescence with internal quantum efficiencies in the range 1%-10% at low temperatures. Photoluminescence in the wavelength range 1.2-1.7-mu-m has been observed from thick (100-200 nm) Si1-xGe(x) alloys and Si1-xGe(x)-Si strained layer superlattices with a range of dimensions which was large compared with the unit cell; i.e. where Brillouin zone folding effects were negligible. The intense Si1-xGe(x) alloy photoluminescence peak had a halfwidth of about 80 meV and the peak energy was found to shift consistently and predictably with the germanium fraction. Photoluminescence peak energies at 4.2 K varied from 620 to 990 meV for germanium fractions where 0.53 > x > 0.06. The photoluminescence and electroluminescence peaks were consistently about 120 meV below the established bandgap for tetragonally strained Si1-xGe(x). In general, Si1-xGe(x) strained layers grown at low temperatures typical of MBE (below 500-degrees-C) exhibited low photoluminescence intensity. However, post-growth annealing in the 500-700-degrees-C temperature range enhanced luminescence efficiency by up to two orders of magnitude. A comparison is also made of the broad intense photoluminescence observed from MBE material with the weak near-band-edge spectra obtained from Si1-xGe(x)-Si grown by low temperature chemical vapour deposition.
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