Thermal activation energy of crystal and amorphous nano-silicon in SiO2 matrix

Solid State Communications

Volumn 147, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 461-464

  Wang, Jiwei ^a   Righini, Marcofabio ^a   Gnoli, Andrea ^a   Foss, Steinar ^b   Finstad, Terje ^b   Serincan, Ugur ^c   Turan, Rasit ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

A. Nano structures; D. Electronic state (localized); D. Exchange splitting; D. Thermal activation energy

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; NONMETALS; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

PHOTOLUMINESCENCE (PL); SILICON EMBEDDED; SIZE DEPENDENCE;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 48749120311     PISSN: 00381098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssc.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

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