Interesting, how did that happen? I'm sure this is on topic, of course.
Interesting, how did that happen? I'm sure this is on topic, of course.
Photoemission from silicon is a commonly-used diagnostic tool. Ordinary recombination produces ~1.1 um photons, which you can see through a thinned die, and hot carriers produce visible photons.
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OK; Q1 NPN base is emitter of substrate lateral with that beta of
0.000001, Q2 NPN base is the collector.. Still think a vertical PNP (nice drawing!) was used as a beta killer.
Too bad that the glow effect was not looked into..then become an early LED and maybe an analog controllable LED.
That was back in the days when we didn't have multi-layer metal, so an N+ crossover made an unintended device that light-emitted. ...Jim Thompson
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