Effect of KI/LiF/CdCl2 on photoluminescent and electroluminescent properties of nanocrystalline (Zn-Cd)S: Cu films

The effect of KI/LiF/CdCl₂ on photoluminescent and electroluminescent (EL) spectra have been reported for (Zn-Cd)S:Cu films. Nanocrystalline films of (Zn-Cd)S:Cu have been prepared using chemical deposition technique in aqueous alkaline bath and their subsequent condensation on substrates. Important results in terms of XRD, SEM, absorption spectra, PL and EL spectra, voltage and frequency dependence of EL brightness are presented. Also, EL brightness waves, EL decay and dependence of EL brightness on nature of electrode material are presented and discussed. SEM studies show best growth conditions in the presence of CdCl₂. Results of XRD studies are associated to ZnS and CdS. Both the studies show average particle sizes to be in the nano order. PL and EL emissions from different films show emission peaks in the blue–green region. Results of absorption spectra show a slight change in band gaps owing to the addition of impurities. Voltage dependence of EL brightness shows effectiveness of acceleration–collision mechanism. Frequency dependence of EL brightness first shows an increase in brightness in the lower frequency range, followed by saturation at higher frequencies. Brightness waves consist of primary and secondary waves, which depend on voltage and frequency of excitation. EL cells with Al electrode give better brightness compared with cells with Ag electrodes. The lifetimes of EL emission are found to be of the order of microseconds.     

用物理化学方法鉴别砷化镓中最主要深能级EL2的本性

本文应用半导体物理化学方法(借助某些物理测试手段)研究GaAs材料中最主要深施主能级EL2映陷的形成及其转化的一些规律。首先归纳了鉴别EL2本性的三个重要依据(化学计量比、与位错关系和低温光猝灭行为),然后着重阐述三元络合物A_(SGa)V_(As)V_(Ga)作为EL2缺陷构型的形成反应、应变模型形成机理和亚稳态机理,并利用该模型来解释EL2的主要物理和化学性质,对文献报道的EL2其它可能构型如As_(Ga)、As_(Ga)Asi、As_(Ga)V_(As)、As_(Ga)V_(Ga)、(Asi)_4、(As_(Ga))_n、V_(Ga)V_(As)和As_(Ga)V_(Ga)V_(As)等作了评述。最后还讨论了EL2与GaAs中其它深能级的关系,其中包括EL2族现象。     

A comparison study of electroluminescence from Au/native oxide/p-Si and Au/porous Si diodes

Visible electroluminescence (EL) has been observed from a Au/native oxide/p-Si diode and has been studied in comparison with the EL from a Au/porous Si diode. Both diodes share similarities in current-voltage characteristics, EL spectra, and electrical input power dependence of integrated EL intensity. However, Au/porous Si exhibits quite strong photoluminescence (PL) while Au/native oxide/p-Si does not show any measurable PL. For the Au/native oxide/p-Si diode, when the native oxide layer was removed in 1% HF solution, no detectable EL has been observed. These experimental results indicate that the native oxide layer plays a key role in light emission from the Au/native oxide/p-Si diode, and show that the luminescence mechanism for Au/native oxide/p-Si diodes is similar to that for the Au/porous Si diode. This comparative study may aid in elucidation of the EL mechanism of porous silicon.     

Effects of copper concentration on electro-optical and structural properties of chemically deposited nanosized (Zn-Cd)S:Cu films

Nanocrystalline (Zn-Cd)S films have been co-deposited on glass slide substrates by chemical bath deposition (CBD) technique at 70 °C for 75 min. Electroluminescent (EL), photoluminescent (PL) and structural characteristics of these films doped with Cu have been investigated. Cu doping has significant effects on the growth, structural and optical properties of the deposited (Zn-Cd)S films. EL studies show the essentiality of copper for EL emission. The effect of Cu concentration is examined on XRD, SEM, UV-vis spectroscopy, etc. The morphology of these films investigated with SEM and XRD is used to determine crystalline nature of the films. The optical absorption coefficient of the films has been found to increase with increase in Cu concentration. Voltage and frequency dependence shows the effectiveness of acceleration-collision mechanism. The trap-depth values are calculated from temperature dependence of EL brightness.     

Fast variations of field-to-density ratio in xenon electroluminescence and electron trapping at the resonance

Summary Xe electroluminescence (EL) has been investigated when varying the applied electric fields in times much lower than the EL relaxation times. The effects of these field jumps can be described within a model which explains the EL in terms of the formation of a peak in the electron energy distribution, near the energy of the subexcitative resonance the Xe exhibits at 7.77 eV. This EL model based on electron trapping at the resonance (ETR) seems to agree well with the reported experimental results. Moreover, starting from the EL rate ratios (measured at the field jumps), one can factorize the rate equation. The two resulting factors have different dependences on the various parameters influencing the EL. Thus, one has a useful instrument for further investigation of the hypothesized underlying phenomena. The authors of this paper have agreed to not receive the proofs for correction. Supported in part by GNEQP-CNR.     

C-ZnSe:Ga MS发光二极管室温蓝带的发光特性

测量了在77K和290K温度下,Au-ZnSe MIS,Au-ZnSe:Ga MIS,C-ZnSe:Ga MS和C-ZnSe MIS二极管的电致发光光谱,得到了以Au作势垒电极时通常有二个室温蓝带,而以C作势垒电极时只有一个室温低能蓝带。在77K—290K温度范围内,研究了C-ZnSe:Ga MS二极管在正向电压激发下的电致发光光谱随温度的变化。结果表明:室温低能蓝带的起因,在低温下可以归结为同时发射二个纵光学声子的自由激子的发射。文中指出,在C-ZnSe:Ga MS二极管上,观测不到室温高能蓝带,是由于晶体的吸收。由此可见,C-ZnSe:Ga MS结的室温蓝色电致发光的效率比Au-ZnSe MIS结的低得多。     

Influence of implantation dose on electroluminescence from Si-implanted silicon nitride thin films

Strong visible electroluminescence (EL) with electrically tunable colors from violet to white has been observed from Si-implanted silicon nitride thin films. Influence of the implanted Si ion dose on both the current conduction and EL properties has been studied. With a larger excess Si concentration, the carrier transport is enhanced leading to a higher EL intensity, but the light emission efficiency is reduced. On the other hand, the increase of the excess Si concentration causes redshifts in the major EL bands and improves the transition of the EL colors with increasing current. The excess Si concentration is also found to have a significant influence on the EL degradation. These findings are important to the application of the Si-implanted thin films in light emitting devices.     

Luminescence in ZnS: La and ZnS: (Mn,La) phosphors

The photo (PL) and electro (EL) luminescence in ZnS: MnLa and ZnS: La have been studied. The enhancement and quenching of emission bands have been observed on the simultaneous application of sinusoidal field and photons. The wave shape, voltage, frequency and temperature dependence of EL brightness have been reported. A study of the phosphorescence and thermoluminescence of these phosphors is also carried out and it is observed that the trap-depth changes slowly with temperature and activator concentration. An attempt has been made to calculate the trap depth by studying temperature dependence of EL brightness. The results are reported and discussed.     

Influence of injection current and temperature on electroluminescence in InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells

Electroluminescence (EL) spectra of blue InGaN/GaN multiple-quantum-well light-emitting diode (LED) have been investigated over a wide range of injection current (0.001–200 mA) and at various temperatures (6–300 K). Surprisingly, with increasing the injection current the EL peak energy shows an initial blueshift accompanied by a broadening of the EL linewidth at low temperatures (below 30 K). This trend differs from the usual photoluminescence (PL) measurement results, which have shown that with increasing the optical excitation power the PL peak energy gave an initial blueshift accompanied by a narrowing of the PL linewidth at low temperatures. The anomalous current behavior of the EL spectra may be attributed to electron leakage results in the failure of Coulomb screening effect and the relative enhancement of the low-energetic localized state filling at low temperatures and low currents. The electron leakage for the LED is further confirmed by both the current dependence of the EL intensity and the temperature dependence of the EL efficiency.     

Grating amplitude effect on electroluminescence enhancement of corrugated organic light-emitting devices

We report grating amplitude dependence of electroluminescence (EL) in organic light-emitting devices with one-dimensional corrugated structure. Our proposed devices can emit light from both the top silver and bottom quartz side, and both exhibit amplitude-dependence EL enhancement. The effect of grating amplitude on the EL intensity has been studied experimentally and numerically to find out the optimal grating amplitude for the greatest EL enhancement. We deduce from the numerical simulations and experimental results that surface plasmon-polariton modes and waveguide modes are coupled out of the corrugated devices efficiently at the optimal amplitude; therefore, higher efficiency of light extraction could be realized.     

Room temperature electroluminescence from ZnO/Si heterojunction devices grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition

Heterojunction light-emitting diodes with ZnO/Si structure were fabricated on both high-resistivity (p) and low-resistivity (p⁺) Si substrates by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition technology. Fairly good rectifications were observed from the current-voltage curves of both heterojunctions. Ultraviolet (UV) and blue-white electroluminescence (EL) from ZnO layer were observed only from ZnO/p⁺-Si heterojunction under forward bias at room temperature (RT), while strong infrared (IR) EL emissions from Si substrates were detected from both ZnO/p-Si and ZnO/p⁺-Si heterojunctions. The UV and IR EL mechanisms have been explained by energy band structures. The realization of RT EL in UV-visible and IR region on Si substrate has great applicable potential for Si-based optoelectronic integrated circuits.     

Development of copper coatings on ceramic powder by electroless technique

Electroless (EL) coating technique is one of the elegant ways of coating by controlling the temperature and pH of the coating bath in which there is no usage of electric current. EL nano-copper coating on ceramic particles of micron size is not reported. In this investigation, ceramic powders of ∼100 μm size have been coated with copper by EL technique in the pH and temperature ranges of 12-13.5 and 60-85 °C, respectively. The optimization of EL copper bath has been evaluated through the combination of process parameters like pH and temperature. The optimized value of pH is found to be 12.5 and temperature as 75 °C. The coated and uncoated powders have been subjected to microstructural studies by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and the phases present have been analyzed by X-ray diffraction. An attempt has been made to understand the bonding mechanism of coating. The adherence with the substrate is attributed to the chemical and mechanical bonding at the interface. A model has been suggested for the mechanical bonding effect at the interface.     

Design and development of organic light emitting diodes

A highly luminescent thiophene based conjugated polymer, i.e., poly[2-(3-thienyl) ethanol butoxy carbonyl–methyl urethane] (PURET) has been used for fabricating polymeric light emitting diodes in the present investigations. PURET has been doped with varying amount of (4-dicyano methylene-2 methyl-6-(p-dimethyl amino styryl)-4H-pyran) dye. Enhanced electroluminescence (EL) and quantum efficiency has been observed by incorporating small amount of dye. An attempt has been made to understand the mechanism of charge transport, which helped in the understanding of the possible reasons for enhancement of EL emission as a function of dye concentration and allowed for further optimization of device performance. Based on capacitance–voltage (C–V) analysis it is proposed that the devices in the present investigations, may be modeled as a resistance and capacitor in parallel for the frequency range of 20 Hz–1 MHz. The enhancement in EL intensity and external quantum efficiency of PURET has been observed in addition of small amount of dye which is attributed to the trapping of excitons and enhanced probability electron–hole recombination in EL layer. In addition, voltage tunable color emission has also been observed. This is attributed to the charge transport among the various layers depending upon the applied voltage.     

Investigation of the mode splitting induced by electro-optic birefringence in a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser by polarized electroluminescence

The mode splitting induced by electro-optic birefringence in a P-I-N InGaAs/GaAs/A1GaAs vertical-cavity surface- emitting laser （VCSEL） has been studied by polarized electroluminescence （EL） at room temperature. The polarized EL spectra with E｜｜[110] and E ｜｜ [150] directions, are extracted for different injected currents. The mode splitting of the two orthogonal polarized modes for a VCSEL device is determined, and its value increases linearly with the increasing injected current due to electro-optic birefringence; This article demonstrates that the polarized EL is a powerful tool to study the mode splitting and polarization anisotropy of a VCSEL device.     

可溶性PPV衍生物电致发光性质的研究

聚对苯乙炔（ＰＰＶ）及其衍生物具有独特的光电性能，是目前性能最好的电致发光材料［１］．ＰＰＶ及其衍生物的合成一直受到人们的关注，国内外大都采用Ｗｅｓｓｌｉｎｇ等人发明的可溶预聚合物法［２］，采用这种方法的缺点是产率低，而且需要高温聚合反应，因此国外竞...     

Spin injection in the multiple quantum-well LED structure with the Fe/AlOx injector

A spin-injection/-detection device has been fabricated based on the multiple quantum well light emitting diode (LED) structure. It is found that only a broad electroluminescence (EL) peak of a full width at half maximum of 8.6 nm appears at the wavelength of 801 nm in EL spectra with a circular luminescence polarization degree of 18%, despite PL spectra always show three well resolved peaks. The kinetic energy gained by injected electrons and holes in their drift along opposite directions broadens the EL pe...     

Organic LED device based on PtOEP phosphor without doping in host material

Electroluminescence (EL) and photoluminescence (PL) have been studied on multi-layer organic light-emitting diode (OLED) devices based on phosphorescent platinum octaethyl porphine (PtOEP) molecule. A multi-layer OLED (called Pt5) which has 100% PtOEP without doping in host as the emitting layer is investigated and compared its EL and PL characteristics with those of the other OLEDs (Pt2 and Pt3) with emitting layer of PtOEP doped in 4,4′-N,N′-dicarbazole-biphenyl (CBP) host material. It is observed that Pt5 shows a lower EL efficiency than Pt2 and Pt3. Three broad EL bands are observed at 500, 527 and 570 nm in the multi-layer device in addition to red sharp EL band due to PtOEP in Pt5, while only the red PtOEP EL is observed in Pt2 and Pt3. The 500, 527 and 570 nm EL peaks arise from absorption of the broad 525 nm Alq₃ emission band by PtOEP layer. The emission from the Alq₃ electron-transport layer is caused by the carrier leakage from the hole-blocking BAlq layer. The intensity of red EL due to PtOEP is much weaker in Pt5 than in Pt2. Taking into account the result of PL, it is suggested that highly efficient energy transfer from CBP host to PtOEP guest occurs in Pt2 and Pt3, giving rise to higher PtOEP luminance, while concentration quenching occurs in PtOEP layer in Pt5.     

Surface electroluminescence phenomena correlated with trapping parameters of insulating polymers

Electroluminescence (EL) phenomena are closely linked to the space charge and degradation in insulating polymers, and dominated by the luminescence and trap centers. EL emission has been promising in defining the onset of electrical aging and in the investigation of dissipation mechanisms. Generally, polymeric degradation reveals the increment of the density of luminescence and trap centers, so a fundamental study is proposed to correlate the EL emission of insulating polymers and their trapping parameters. A sensitive photon counting system is constructed to detect the weak EL. The time- and phase-resolved EL characteristics from different polymers (LDPE, PP and PTFE) are investigated with a planar electrode configuration under stepped ac voltage in vacuum. In succession, each sample is charged with exposing to multi-needle corona discharge, and then its surface potential decay is continuously recorded at a constant temperature. Based on the isothermal relaxation current theory, the energy level and density of both electron and hole trap distribution in the surface layer of each polymer is obtained. It is preliminarily concluded that EL phenomena are strongly affected by the trap properties, and for different polymers, its EL intensity is in direct contrast to its surface trap density, and this can be qualitatively explained by the trapping and detrapping sequence of charge carriers in trap centers with different energy level.     

Ce3+-冠醚配合物的紫外有机电致发光

采用5d-4f跃迁的稀土Ce³⁺-冠醚配合物(Ce-二环己基并-18-冠-6,Ce-DC18C6)作为发光掺杂剂,4,4'-二(9-咔唑基)联苯(CBP)为基质,设计制备了紫外发光器件:ITO/CuPc/Ce-DC18C6:CBP/Bu-PBD/LiF/Al,首次观测到峰位于376nm的Ce³⁺离子的紫外电致发光。通过对比器件的EL谱与Ce³⁺-冠醚配合物薄膜的PL谱发现,EL光谱中有部分来自Ce³⁺配合物中的Ce³⁺离子的。这种5d-4f电子跃迁的掺杂质量分数为3%时,该UV-发光器件的最大辐射功率为13μW/cm²。     

Ce~(3+)注入掺杂金刚石薄膜蓝区电致发光研究

采用微波等离子体化学气相沉积设备在高掺杂硅衬底上沉积了一层金刚石薄膜,然后采用离子注入法在金刚石薄膜中注入不同剂量的Ce3+,从而制备出了Ce3+掺杂的金刚石薄膜.研究了其电致发光特性,得到了发光主峰位于蓝区(476 nm和435 nm处)的光发射.实验中发现随着Ce3+注入剂量的增加,电致发光强度也随之增加.