Tunable light emission from quantum-confined excitons in TiSi 2-catalyzed silicon nanowires

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2140-2144

  Guichard, Alex R ^a   Barsic, David N ^a   Sharma, Shashank ^b   Kamins, Theodore I ^b   Brongersma, Mark L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION WAVELENGTH; LIGHT EMITTING NANOWIRES; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT; SILICON NANOWIRES;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; EXCITONS; LIGHT EMISSION; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; WIRE;

TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

NANOTUBE; QUANTUM DOT; SILICATE; SILICON; TITANIUM; TITANIUM SILICIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LUMINESCENCE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CATALYSIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; LASERS; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SILICATES; SILICON; TITANIUM;

EID: 33749657116     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl061287m     Document Type: Article

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