Dominating radiative recombination in a nanoporous silicon layer with a metal-rich Au (1-α)-SiO2 (α) cermet waveguide

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Hu, Xiaolong ^a   Huang, Yidong ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Peng, Jiangde ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERMETS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

NANOPOROUS SILICON; NANOWAVEGUIDES; RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION;

POROUS SILICON;

EID: 33747866003     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2336215     Document Type: Article

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