Quantum confinement effects on the electronic structure of si(001) ultrathin films: energy shifts of optical band edges and luminescence in crystalline and amorphous si films

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 15789-15795

  Nishida, Masahiko ^a  

^a KANAZAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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EID: 0001228164     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.15789     Document Type: Article

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