Abstract
We report the first room-temperature 1.3 μm electroluminescence from strained Si1-xGex/Si quantum wells. The electroluminescence is due to band-edge carrier recombination, and its intensity increases linearly with the forward current up to 1700 A/cm2. The internal quantum efficiency is estimated to have a lower limit of 2×10-4. As the temperature is increased from 77 to 300 K, luminescence from the silicon increases relative to that from the Si 1-xGex wells. A minimum band offset is required to have effective room-temperature luminescence from the Si1-xGex quantum wells.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 3177-3179 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 60 |
Issue number | 25 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1992 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)