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This article presents a study of the possibilities of optimising the electroluminescence (EL) efficiency of dislocation-engineered silicon light-emitting diodes (DELEDs). The diodes were produced by implantation of boron in n-type (100)Si wafers, at a constant ion energy and fluence, of 30 keV and 1×1015 ions/cm2, respectively. The density and the areal coverage by dislocation loops were varied by applying different annealing times in a rapid thermal processing, from 30 s to 60 min. It is shown that the EL efficiency is directly correlated to the number and areal coverage by the loops. The highest population of loops, ∼5×109 /cm2, and an areal coverage of around 50% were achieved for 1–5 min annealing. This loop distribution results in optimal DELEDs, having the highest EL response and the largest increase of EL intensity with operating temperature (80–300 K). The results of this work confirm a previously introduced model of charge-carrier spatial confinement by a local stress induced by the edge of the dislocation loops, preventing carrier diffusion to non-radiative recombination centres and enhancing radiative transitions at the silicon band edge.
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Milosavljević, M., Lourenço, M., Shao, G. et al. Optimising dislocation-engineered silicon light-emitting diodes. Appl. Phys. B 83, 289–294 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-006-2149-6
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