Nonradiative recombination in strongly interacting silicon nanocrystals embedded in amorphous silicon-oxide films

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Rowlette, Jeremy A ^a   Kekatpure, Rohan D ^a   Panzer, Matt A ^a   Brongersma, Mark L ^a   Goodson, Kenneth E ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

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EID: 69949155760     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.045314     Document Type: Article

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