In the explosive reaction of composites based on porous silicon with perchlorate oxidizers, a new effect has been discovered: the intensity accompanying the explosive reaction reaches its maximum value in tens of microseconds from the beginning of the explosive reaction, a sharp drop in intensity to zero then occurs for tens of microseconds (“zero shelf”), and short light and electromagnetic pulses are finally emitted. The recorded emission line width about 1 nm allows one to interpret a light pulse as a laser effect. The conditions for observing the zero shelf, the possible cause of its appearance, and the emission mechanism of a short light pulse are discussed.
In the present work a mechanism of nonradiative radiation via deep energy levels is considered for InGaN/GaN LEDs from the first principles. The coefficient and time of such Auger recombination are evaluated numerically and are shown to be enough for causing the efficiency droop in blue and green InGaN/GaN LEDs.
A new mechanism of nonradiative recombination of nonequilibrium carriers in semiconductor quantum wells is suggested and discussed. For a studied Auger recombination process the energy of localized electron-hole pair is transferred to barrier carriers due to Coulomb interaction. The analysis of the rate and the coefficient of this process is carried out. It is shown, that there exists two processes of thresholdless and quasithreshold types, and thresholdless one is dominant. The coefficient of studied process is a non-monotonous function of quantum well width having maximum in region of narrow quantum wells. Comparison of this process with CHCC process shows that these two processes of nonradiative recombination are competing in narrow quantum wells, but prevail at different quantum well widths.
A mechanism of nonradiative recombination of nonequilibrium carriers in semiconductor quantum wells is suggested and discussed. For a studied Auger recombination process the energy of localized electron-hole pair is transferred to barrier carriers due to Coulomb interaction. It is shown that the Auger coefficient is a weak function of temperature and nonmonotonically depends on the quantum well width.