Surface passivation of (001) GaAs with self-assembled monolayers of long-chain thiols

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5713, Issue , 2005, Pages 545-551

  Ding, Ximing ^a   Dubowski, Jan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

GaAs; Photoluminescence; Self assembled monolayers; Surface passivation; Thiol semiconductor interface

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MONOLAYERS; PASSIVATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

PHOTONIC DEVICES; SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SURFACE PASSIVATION; THIOL-SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACES;

SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

EID: 23744467050     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.605649     Document Type: Conference Paper

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