Abstract:
A GaN-based semiconductor light-emitting device 1 includes a stacked body 1OA having the component layers 12 that include an n-type semiconductor layer, a light- emitting layer and a p-type semiconductor layer each formed of a GaN-based semiconductor, sequentially stacked and provided as an uppermost layer with a first bonding layer 14 made of metal and a second bonding layer 33 formed on an electroconductive substrate 31, adapted to have bonded to the first bonding layer 14 the surface thereof lying opposite the side on which the electroconductive substrate 31 is formed, made of a metal of the same crystal structure as the first bonding layer 14, and allowed to exhibit an identical crystal orientation in the perpendicular direction of the bonding surface and the in-plane direction of the bonding surface.
Abstract:
A light-emitting device (LED) includes a first semiconductor layer comprising of n-type dope materials. A second semiconductor layer includes p-type dope materials. An active region is positioned between the first and second semiconductor layers. The active region includes Si self-interstitials used in producing electroluminescence having emissions at wavelengths approximately 1.218 µm.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a doped semiconductor nanocrystal layer comprising (a) a group IV oxide layer which is free of ion implantation damage, (b) from 30 to 50 atomic percent of a semiconductor nanocrystal distributed in the group IV oxide layer, and (c) from 0.5 to 15 atomic percent of one or more rare earth element, the one or more rare earth element being (i) dispersed on the surface of the semiconductor nanocrystal and (ii) distributed substantially equally through the thickness of the group IV oxide layer. The present invention also relates to a semiconductor structure comprising the above semiconductor nanocrystal layer and to processes for preparing the semiconductor nanocrystal layer. Furthermore, photonic devices employing the new materials are also provided. The invention provides a doped semiconductor powder comprising nanocrystals of a group IV semiconductor and a rare earth element, the rare earth element being dispersed on the surface of the group IV semiconductor nanocrystals. The invention also provides processes for the preparation of the above doped semiconductor powder, a composite material comprising the a matrix in which is dispersed a doped semiconductor powder, and photonic devices comprising doped semiconductor powders and doped semiconductor layers.
Abstract:
An electronic or optoelectronic device fabricated from a crystalline material in which a parameter of a bandgap characteristic of said crystalline material has been modified locally by introducing distortions on an atomic scale in the lattice structure of said crystalline material and the electronic and/or optoelectronic parameters of said device are dependent on the modification of said bandgap is exemplified by a radiation emissive optoelectronic semiconductor device which comprises a junction (10) formed from a p-type layer (11) and an n-type layer (12), both formed from indirect bandgap semiconductor material. The p-type layer (11) contains an array of dislocation loops which create a strain field to confine spatially and promote radiative recombination of the charge carriers.
Abstract:
A sapphire substrate (1) is etched in a stripe pattern having a width of 10 mu m, an interval of 10 mu m, and a depth of 10 mu m. An AlN buffer layer (2) with a thickness of about 40 nm is formed mainly on the top and bottom surfaces of a step on the substrate (1). A GaN layer (3) is formed by vertical and horizontal epitaxial growth. Thus the step is covered by the buffer layer (21) grown on the top surface of the step by horizontal epitaxy, and therefore the surface is planarized. The threading dislocations in the portion of the GaN layer (3) above the bottom of the step are significantly suppressed compared with the portion thereof above the top of the step.
Abstract:
A light emitting diode (LED) (10) grown on a substrate (16) doped with one or more rare earth or transition element. The dopant ions absorb some or all of the light from the LED's active layer (11), pumping the electrons on the dopant ion to a higher energy state. The electrons are naturally drawn to their equilibrium state and they emit light at a wavelength that depends on the type of dopant ion. The invention is particularly applicable to nitride based LEDs (10) emitting UV light and grown on a sapphire substrate (16) doped with chromium. The chromium ions absorb the UV light, exciting the electrons on ions to a higher energy state. When they return to their equilibrium state they emit red light and some of the red light will emit from the LED's surface.
Abstract:
Semiconductor materials having a porous texture are modified with a recognition element and produce a photoluminescent response on exposure to electromagnetic radiation. The recognition elements, which can be selected from biomolecular, organic and inorganic moieties, interact with a target analyte to produce a modulated photoluminescent response, as compared with that of semiconductor materials modified with a recognition element only.
Abstract:
There are provided mesoporous silica materials containing in their pores stabilized clusters of silicon atoms, of size 2 nanometers or less, and capable of photoluminescence to emit fast photons. They are prepared by chemical vapour deposition of silicon or a silicon precursor such as disilane, under soft conditions such as temperature of 100-150 DEG C, into the mesopores of silicate films which have mesoporous channels prepared by growth of the films using a template to control their sizes, but without removing the template residues from the films prior to the chemical vapour deposition. The template residues serve to limit the size of the silicon clusters which conform. The use of the soft conditions on CVD retains the template residues in an intact, substantially unchanged form. The resultant films have clusters of silicon, of 2 nanometer size or less, anchored to the mesopores, and air stable, so that they can be used in optoelectronic devices in conjunction with standard silicon semiconductors.
Abstract:
LED (1) umfassend - eine Grundschicht (2) aus dotiertem Diamant oder dotiertem Siliziumkarbid mit darin eingebetteten Farbzentren (3), - einen an die Grundschicht (2) angebundenen Schottky-Kontakt (4), - einen an die Grundschicht (2) angebundenen ohmschen Kontakt (5).