Chin. Phys. Lett.  2010, Vol. 27 Issue (4): 048501    DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/27/4/048501
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A Low-Voltage Silicon Light Emitting Device in Standard Salicide CMOS Technology

WANG Wei1, HUANG Bei-Ju1, DONG Zan1, LIU Hai-Jun1, ZHANG Xu1, GUAN Ning1, CHEN Jin1, GUO Wei-Lian2, NIU Ping-Juan2, CHEN Hong-Da1

1State Key Laboratory for Integrated Optoelectronics,Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 1000832School of Information and Communication, Tianjin PolytechnicUniversity, Tianjin 300160
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WANG Wei, HUANG Bei-Ju, DONG Zan et al  2010 Chin. Phys. Lett. 27 048501
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Abstract

A silicon-based field emission light emitting diode for low-voltage operation is fabricated in the standard 0.35 μm 2P4M salicide complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. Partially overlapping p+ and n+ regions with a salicide block layer are employed in this device to constitute a heavily doped p+-n+ junction which has soft "knee" Zener breakdown characteristics, thus its working voltage can be reduced preferably below 5 V, and at the same time the power efficiency is improved. The spectra of this device are spread over 500 nm to 1000 nm with the main peak at about 722 nm and an obvious red shift of the spectra peak is observed with the increasing current through the device. During the emission process, field emission rather than avalanche process plays a major role. Differences between low-voltage Zener breakdown emission and high-voltage avalanche breakdown emission performance are observed and compared.

Keywords: 85.60.Jb      42.82.Ds      78.60.Fi      85.40.-e     
Received: 01 September 2009      Published: 27 March 2010
PACS:  85.60.Jb (Light-emitting devices)  
  42.82.Ds (Interconnects, including holographic interconnects)  
  78.60.Fi (Electroluminescence)  
  85.40.-e (Microelectronics: LSI, VLSI, ULSI; integrated circuit fabrication technology)  
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