The electroluminescent properties based on bias polarity of the epitaxial graphene/aluminium SiC junction

Abstract

We investigated the electroluminescent properties of the epitaxial graphene/SiC junction. The temperature and current dependence of electroluminescence from the epitaxial graphene/SiC is measured within a temperature range of 50-300 K. The result of electroluminescence at 300~K is compared with the electroluminescent spectra from aluminium/SiC junction. The difference between the spectra is explained by the different band bending, which could lead to the tunable LED due to the semi-metal character of the graphene. We observed the electroluminescence at both bias polarities and we described the blue shift in the spectra by Franz-Keldysh effect.