Ambient-stable blue luminescent silicon nanocrystals prepared by nanosecond-pulsed laser ablation in water

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 520-527

  Švrček, Vladimir ^a   Mariotti, Davide ^b   Kondo, Michio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b Kate Gleason College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCIMER LASERS; LASER ABLATION; LUMINESCENCE; NANOCRYSTALS; PULSED LASERS; SILICON; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

BLUE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; ENVIRONMENTALLY COMPATIBLE; LASER GENERATED PLASMAS; LUMINESCENT SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; NANOCRYSTALLINE CORES; NANOSECOND PULSED LASER; PULSED EXCIMER LASERS; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT EFFECTS;

PRODUCED WATER;

EID: 58449126918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.000520     Document Type: Article

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