Theory of piezo-phototronics for light-emitting diodes.

Devices fabricated by using the inner-crystal piezopotential as a "gate" voltage to tune/control the carrier generation, transport, and recombination processes at the vicinity of a p-n junction are named piezo-phototronics. Here, the theory of the photon emission and carrier transport behavior in piezo-phototronic devices is investigated as a p-n junction light-emitting diode. Numerical calculations are given for predicting the photon emission and current-voltage characteristics of a general piezo-phototronic light-emitting diode.