An alternative approach to understand the photoluminescence and the photoluminescence peak shift with excitation in porous silicon

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 104, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Pradeep, J Anto ^a   Agarwal, Pratima ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SOURCES; LUMINESCENCE; NONMETALS; OPTICAL CONSTANTS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE EXCITATIONS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PEAKS; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; SPECTRAL DEPENDENCES; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE STATES; TRADITIONAL ANALYSES; ULTRATHIN SILICONS;

POROUS SILICON;

EID: 58149236519     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3043626     Document Type: Article

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