Influence of grain size on ultrafast carrier dynamics in thin nanocrystalline silicon films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 19, 2007, Pages

  Lioudakis, Emmanouil ^a   Othonos, Andreas ^a   Nassiopoulou, A G ^b   Lioutas, Ch B ^c   Frangis, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; OPTICAL PUMPING; SILICON; THIN FILMS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

SILICON FILMS; SPECTRAL RANGE; SURFACE STATES; SURFACE TO VOLUME RATIO;

NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

EID: 34248373795     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2738383     Document Type: Article

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