We report on visible and near-infrared (NIR) electroluminescence (EL) from the device based on the TiO2/p+-Si heterostructure, in which the TiO2 film is composed of anatase and rutile phases. As the device is applied with sufficiently high forward bias with the positive voltage connecting to p+-Si, the visible EL peaking at ∼600 nm along with the NIR EL centered at ∼810 nm occur simultaneously. It is proposed that the oxygen vacancies in the anatase TiO2 and Ti3+ defect states in the rutile TiO2 are the responsible centers for the visible and NIR EL, respectively.
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