Title :
Radiation caused by direct and indirect transitions in silicon at avalanche and secondary breakdown
Author :
T. Puritis;J. Kaupuzs
Abstract :
Mechanisms of visible and infrared radiation, causing light emission of microplasma, pre-mesoplasma, and mesoplasma, are analyzed. The dark band in the profile of emitted light of mesoplasma is found theoretically.
Keywords :
"Silicon","Avalanche breakdown","Charge carriers","Electric breakdown","P-n junctions","Temperature","Photonic band gap","Capacitance-voltage characteristics","Heat sinks","Thermal resistance"
Conference_Titel :
Microelectronics, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 21st International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3664-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICMEL.1997.625205
