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Streamer luminescence in semiconductors (Review)

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Over the past ten years a considerable amount of work has been done on the physics of incomplete breakdown and many important laws governing this phenomenon have been established.

Effective methods were found for exciting streamers, criteria for their appearance were formulated, the crystallographic directions of propagation were determined, the velocity of the streamer head was measured, and the spectra of spontaneous and stimulated emission were measured. The phenomenon of extinction-stimulation of streamer discharges was discovered, five types of incomplete electrical breakdown of semiconductors were observed, and the effect of temperature and of defects in the crystal on the luminescence pattern of the discharges was established. The first important steps in the theoretical description of the formation and propagation of streamers were taken. A streamer laser, which generates radiation in the longitudinal and transverse directions, was developed. Streamer discharges are used to excite luminescence and lasing, and to determine the crystallographic orientation and polarity of the surfaces of semiconducting crystals.

Further comprehensive theoretical and experimental study of the laws governing incomplete electrical breakdown in solids will yield new valuable information on the electrical, acoustical, and optical processes occurring in them and will facilitate more extensive application of streamers for practical purposes.

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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 709–718, May, 1984.

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Gribkovskii, V.P. Streamer luminescence in semiconductors (Review). J Appl Spectrosc 40, 495–503 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00661450

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