Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2008-09-05
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
14 pages, 4 fugures
Scientific paper
In a semiconductor heterostructure with type II energy band alignment, the spatial separation between electrons and holes slows down their radiative recombination. With increasing excitation intensity, Auger recombination quickly becomes the dominate recombination channel, and it produces carrier ejection from the quantum well. Here, we show that in Si/SiGe three-dimensional nanostructures, this efficient process facilitates the formation of an electron-hole plasma (EHP) and/or electron-hole droplets (EHDs) in thin Si barriers separating SiGe clusters. In contrast to conventional, strongly temperature dependent and slow radiative carrier recombination in bulk Si, this EHD/EHP luminescence in nanometer-thick Si layers is found to be nearly temperature independent with radiative lifetime approaching 10^-8 s, which is only slightly slower than that found in direct band gap III-V semiconductors.
Baribeau J.-M.
Bratkovsky Alexander M.
Kamins T. I.
Lee Eok Kyun
Lockwood David J.
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