Off stoichiometric silicon oxide, also known as silicon-rich oxide (SRO), is a lightemitting material that is compatible with silicon technology; therefore, it is a good candidate to be used as a light source in all-silicon optoelectronic circuits. The SRO obtained by low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) has shown the best luminescent properties compared to other techniques. In spite of LPCVD being a simple technique, it is not a simple task to obtain SRO with exact silicon excess in a reliable and repetitive way. In this work, the expertise obtained in our group to obtain SRO by LPCVD with precise variation is presented. Also, the characteristics of this SRO obtained in our group are revised and discussed. It is demonstrated that LPCVD is an excellent technique to obtain single layers and multilayers of nanometric single layers with good characteristics.

This work describes the analysis and fabrication by Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition of two light-emitting capacitors (LECs) constituted by nanometric multilayers of silicon-rich oxide. For both structures, seven layers were used: three light emitting layers with 6% silicon excess and four conductive layers with 12% silicon excess for one LEC and the other with 14% silicon excess. Both LECs were annealed at 1100 °C. Both multilayers demonstrate a substantially improved photoluminescent response compared to single emitting layers. A dielectric constant of 4.1 and a trap density of 1016 cm−3 were obtained from capacitance-voltage curves. Analysis of current-voltage and electroluminescence-voltage (EL-V) characteristics indicates that EL initiates under the space-charge-limited current mechanism, and the required voltage to turn on the emission is 38 V which is the trap-free limit voltage. However, EL increases exponentially under the impact ionization and trap-assisted tunneling conduction mechanisms. The electroluminescence spectra for both multilayers show two emission peaks centered in 450 and 700 nm attributed to oxygen defects. Also, the LEC non-normal emission was measured and it behaves like a Lambertian optical source. Both multilayers obtain the values of efficiency in the order of 10−6 which is in good agreement with the values reported in the literature.

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