Confinement effect of optical phonons in Si-Ge alloy nanocrystals

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 338, Issue 3-5, 2005, Pages 379-384

  Yang, Y M ^a   Wu, X L ^a   Huang, G S ^a   Hu, D S ^a   Siu, G G ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Confinement properties; Ge Si alloy nanocrystals; Optical phonons

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHONONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; CONFINEMENT PROPERTIES; DISPERSION RELATIONSHIP; OPTICAL PHONONS; OPTICAL VIBRATION MODES; PHONON CONFINEMENT EFFECT; SI ALLOYS; THERMAL CRYSTALLIZATION;

SI-GE ALLOYS;

ALLOY; GERMANIUM; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISPERSION; NANOPARTICLE; PHONON; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIBRATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 16844387348     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2005.02.051     Document Type: Article

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