Field-effect electroluminescence in silicon nanocrystals

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 143-146

  Walters, Robert J ^a   Bourianoff, George I ^b   Atwater, Harry A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MS 4A15 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ELECTRONS; EXCITONS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; MICROELECTRONICS; MOS DEVICES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PASSIVATION; SILICON;

CARRIER INJECTION; EXCITONIC EMISSION; FIELD-EFFECT ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 13144305112     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1307     Document Type: Article

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