Synthesis, characterization, and modeling of nitrogen-passivated colloidal and thin film silicon nanocrystals

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1151-1163

  Dal Negro, Luca ^b,c   Hamel, Sebastien ^d   Zaitseva, Natalia ^d   Yi, Jae Hyung ^e   Williamson, Andrew ^d   Stolfi, Michael ^e   Michel, Jurgen ^e   Galli, Giulia ^e   Kimerling, Lionel C ^a,e  

^a IEEE

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroluminescence; Light sources; Nanotechnology; Silicon

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITROGEN; PASSIVATION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; THIN FILMS;

OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; STRUCTURAL STABILITY; THIN FILM DEPOSITION;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33845609588     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.883693     Document Type: Article

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