Ultrafast transient photoinduced absorption in silicon nanocrystals: Coupling of oxygen-related states to quantized sublevels

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Lioudakis, Emmanouil ^a   Othonos, Andreas ^a   Nassiopoulou, A G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SILICON; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

OXYGEN-RELATED INTERFACE STATES; PHOTOINDUCED ABSORPTION; QUANTIZED SUBLEVELS;

NANOCRYSTALS;

EID: 34248547781     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2728756     Document Type: Article

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