Strain-engineered photoluminescence of silicon nanoclusters

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Peng, X H ^a,b   Ganti, S ^b   Alizadeh, A ^b   Sharma, P ^c   Kumar, S K ^d   Nayak, S K ^a  

^a Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

^d RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 33746494399     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.035339     Document Type: Article

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