SiO2:Si:Er films were deposited on n+-Si substrate using the magnetron sputtering technique, and then Au/ SiO2: Si:Er /n+-Si diodes were fabricated. Both Er3+ photoluminescence (PL) from the SiO2: Si: Er/n+-Si and electroluminescence (EL) from the Au/SiO2: Si: Er /n+-Si diodes were studied. The 1.54 micrometers PL intensity ratio of SiO2: Si: Er/n+-Si to that of the SiO2: Er/n+-Si measured under identical conditions can be as large as ~30. While the 1.54 micrometers EL intensity ratio of an Au/ SiO2:Si:Er/n+-Si diode to that of an Au/SiO2:Er/n+-Si diode measured under identical conditions can be as large as 6. We also deposited nanoscale (SiO2:Er/Si(1.0~4.0nm)/SiO2:Er) sandwich structure, in which the silicon layer between the two SiO2:Er barriers was 1.0~4.0 nm thick with an interval of 0.2 nm, on both n+-Si and p-Si substrates. Each EL spectrum of the Au/nanoscale (SiO2:Er/Si/SiO2:Er)/n+-Si diodes can be fitted by three Gaussian bands with peak energies of 0.757 eV (1.64 micrometers ), 0.806 eV (1.54 micrometers ) and 0.860 eV (1.44 micrometers ), and full widths at half maximum of 0.052, 0.045 and 0.055 eV, respectively. Among the Au/nanoscale (SiO2:Er/Si/SiO2:Er)/n+-Si diodes with the Si layers having various thicknesses, the EL intensities of the 1.64, 1.54 and 1.44 micrometers bands of the diode with a 1.6 nm Si layer attain maxima which are 22, 8 and 7 times larger than those of the control diode without any Si layer (Au/nanoscale SiO2:Er/n+-Si), respectively.
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