Quantum confinement and electronic properties of silicon nanowires

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 23, 2004, Pages

  Zhao, Xinyuan ^a   Wei, C M ^a,b   Yang, L ^a   Chou, M Y ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON; WIRE;

QUANTUM CONFINEMENTS; QUANTUM SIZE EFFECTS (QSE); SILICON NANOWIRES (SINW);

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 3242701624     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.236805     Document Type: Article

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