Title : 
Calculation of internal quantum efficiency of β-FeSi2 light-emitting diode
         
        
            Author : 
Jung-Sheng Huang ; Kuan-Wei Lee ; Jung-Chin Chang ; Chan-Cheng Yeh ; Raksavas, W.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electron. Eng., I-Shou Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The purpose of this paper is to calculate the dc characteristics and investigate the internal quantum efficiency of β-FeSi2-based DH LED by analytical methods. The I-V characteristics of β-FeSi2 DH LED are calculated by using diffusion mechanism. The injected and leakage free electron current densities at the heterojunction between β-FeSi2 and n-Si are calculated by using thermionic emission mechanism. The ideal internal quantum efficiency η is proportional to eeVakT and η is about 0.07% at Va = 0.5V.
         
        
            Keywords : 
iron compounds; light emitting diodes; thermionic emission; FeSi2; diffusion mechanism; internal quantum efficiency; leakage free electron current density; light emitting diode; thermionic emission mechanism; Current density; DH-HEMTs; Educational institutions; Heterojunctions; Light emitting diodes; Next generation networking; Thermionic emission; β-FeSi2 DH LED; internal quantum efficiency;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Next-Generation Electronics (ISNE), 2013 IEEE International Symposium on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Kaohsiung
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-3036-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ISNE.2013.6512381