There is an urgent requirement for an optical emitter that is compatible with standard, silicon-
based ultra-large-scale integration (ULSI) technology. Bulk silicon has an indirect energy …

Considerable effort is being expended on the development of efficient silicon light-emitting
devices compatible with silicon-based integrated circuit technology. Although several …

MICROELECTRONIC device integration has progressed to the point where
complete'systems-on-a-chip'have been realized1–3. Now that optoelectronics is becoming …

We demonstrate electroluminescence (EL) with an external efficiency of more than 0.1% at
room temperature from glide dislocations in silicon. The key to this achievement is a …

Crystalline silicon is an indirect-bandgap semiconductor, making it an inefficient emitter of
light. The successful integration of silicon-based electronics with optical components will …

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Following the introduction of silicon-based integrated circuitry over three decades ago, the
integration density of such circuits has doubled every 12 to 18 months: this observation is …

The possibility induction of light emission from silicon, an indirect bandgap material in which
radiative transitions are unlikely, raises several interesting and technologically important …