Enhanced luminescence from electron-hole droplets in silicon nanolayers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 5721-5723

  Nihonyanagi, Satoshi ^a   Kanemitsu, Yoshihiko ^a,b  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INSULATORS; ELECTRONS; EXCITONS; LUMINESCENCE; NUCLEATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRON-HOLE DROPLET (EHD); ELECTRON-HOLE DROPLETS; ELLIPSOMETERS; SILICON NANOLAYERS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 12844280582     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1829161     Document Type: Article

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