Superinjection in single-photon emitting diamond diodes

Practical applications exploiting the quantum nature of light require efficient and bright room-temperature single-photon sources. At present, color centers in diamond are considered to be the most promising candidates. However, their efficient electrical excitation is challenging due to the inabili...

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Published in:	2018 International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD) pp. 123 - 124
Main Authors:	Khramtsov, I.A., Fedyanin, D.Yu
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 01-11-2018
Subjects:	Color color centers in diamond Diamond Doping Electroluminescence P-i-n diodes Physics Single-photon emitting diode superinjection in homojunctions
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Summary:	Practical applications exploiting the quantum nature of light require efficient and bright room-temperature single-photon sources. At present, color centers in diamond are considered to be the most promising candidates. However, their efficient electrical excitation is challenging due to the inability to create a high density of free electrons in diamond. In this work, we predict the superinjection effect in diamond homojunction p-i-n diodes, which enables to inject up to four orders of magnitude more electrons into the i-region than the doping of the n-type region allows. Despite that the superinjection effect is known to be a unique feature of semiconductor heterostructures, we demonstrate for the first time that this effect can also be observed in homojunction diamond diodes, giving the possibility to overcome the doping problem and design bright electrically driven single-photon sources.
ISSN:	2158-3242
DOI:	10.1109/NUSOD.2018.8570242