Femtosecond luminescence spectroscopy of core states in silicon nanocrystals

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 25241-25249

  Zidek K ^a,b   Trojanek F ^a   Maly P ^a   Ondic, L ^a,b   Pelant, I ^b   Dohnalova K ^b,c   Siller L ^d   Little, R ^d   Horrocks, B R ^d  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PASSIVATION; QUENCHING; SPECTROSCOPY;

CARRIER RELAXATION; DECAY COMPONENTS; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; FEMTOSECONDS; GENERAL MODEL; INTERFACE STATE; LUMINESCENCE DECAYS; LUMINESCENCE DYNAMICS; LUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MATRIX INTERFACES; PICOSECONDS; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; SPECTRAL DEPENDENCES; SURFACE PASSIVATION; ULTRAFAST CARRIER DYNAMICS; ULTRAFAST CARRIERS;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 78649712108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.025241     Document Type: Article

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