Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 7, Issue 4, 04271(2009)

Efficient above-band-gap light emission in germanium

Jifeng Liu, Xiaochen Sun, Yu Bai, Kenneth E., Eugene A., Lionel C., and Jurgen Michel
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  • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Microphotonics Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USAE-mail: jfliu01@mit.edu
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    We report an above-band-gap radiative transition in the photoluminescence spectra of single crystalline Ge in the temperature range of 20~296 K. The temperature-independence of the peak position at ~0.74 eV is remarkably different from the behavior of direct and indirect gap transitions in Ge. This transition is observed in n-type, p-type, and intrinsic single crystal Ge alike, and its intensity decreases with the increase of temperature with a small activation energy of 56 meV. Some aspects of the transition are analogous to III-V semiconductors with dilute nitrogen doping, which suggests that the origin could be related to an isoelectronic defect.

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    Jifeng Liu, Xiaochen Sun, Yu Bai, Kenneth E., Eugene A., Lionel C., Jurgen Michel. Efficient above-band-gap light emission in germanium[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2009, 7(4): 04271

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    Received: Dec. 17, 2008

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Apr. 27, 2009

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    DOI:10.3788/COL20090704.0271

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