Enhanced photoluminescence and photonic bandgap modification from composite photonic crystals of macroporous silicon and nanocrystalline PbS thin films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Gutman, N ^a   Armon, A ^a   Sa'Ar, A ^a   Osherov, A ^b   Golan, Y ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE FILMS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; EXTRACTION; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; MICROCOMPUTERS; NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON; NONMETALS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONICS; POROUS SILICON; POWDERS; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM TELLURIDE; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON; THICK FILMS; THIN FILMS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BAND EDGES; DEFECT-FREE; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; MACRO-POROUS SILICON; NANO-CRYSTALLINE; PHOTONIC; PHOTONIC BAND GAPS; RED SHIFTING; STOP-BANDS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 50249096150     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2969054     Document Type: Article

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