Temperature-dependent photoluminescence of surface-engineered silicon nanocrystals

Mitra, Somak and Švrcek, Vladimir and MacIas-Montero, Manual and Velusamy, Tamilselvan and Mariotti, Davide (2016) Temperature-dependent photoluminescence of surface-engineered silicon nanocrystals. Scientific Reports, 6. 27727. ISSN 2045-2322 (https://doi.org/10.1038/srep27727)

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Abstract

In this work we report on temperature-dependent photoluminescence measurements (15-300 K), which have allowed probing radiative transitions and understanding of the appearance of various transitions. We further demonstrate that transitions associated with oxide in SiNCs show characteristic vibronic peaks that vary with surface characteristics. In particular we study differences and similarities between silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) derived from porous silicon and SiNCs that were surface-treated using a radio-frequency (RF) microplasma system.

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Mitra, Somak, Švrcek, Vladimir, MacIas-Montero, Manual, Velusamy, Tamilselvan and Mariotti, Davide ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-4383;
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