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Polarization strategies to improve the emission of a Si-based light source emitting at 1.55 um
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We present a electroluminescence (EL) study of the Si-rich silicon oxide (SRSO) LEDs with and without Er3+ ions under different polarization schemes: direct current (DC) and pulsed voltage (PV). The power efficiency of the devices and their main optical limitations are presented. We show that under PV polarization scheme, the devices achieve one order of magnitude superior performance in comparison with DC. Time-resolved measurements have shown that this enhancement is met only for active layers in which annealing temperature is high enough (>1000 ◦C) for silicon nanocrystal (Si-nc) formation. Modeling of the system with rate equations has been done and excitation cross-sections for both Si-nc and Er3+ ions have been extracted.
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RAMÍREZ RAMÍREZ, Joan Manel, et al. Polarization strategies to improve the emission of a Si-based light source emitting at 1.55 um. Materials Science and Engineering B-Solid State Materials for Advanced Technology. 2011. Vol. 177, num. 10, pags. 734-738. ISSN 0921-5107. [consulted: 6 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/32396