Effect of substrate roughness on photoluminescence spectra of silicon nanocrystals grown by off axis pulsed laser deposition

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Rani, J R ^a   Pillai, V P Mahadevan ^a   Ajimsha, R S ^b   Jayaraj, M K ^b   Jayasree, R S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KERALA   (India)

^b Department of Physics   (India)

^c SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SILICA; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PEAK ENERGY; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT; SILICON NANOPARTICLES; SUBSTRATE ROUGHNESS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33746211126     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2209432     Document Type: Article

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