Spatially confined synthesis of SiOx nano-rod with size-controlled Si quantum dots in nano-porous anodic aluminum oxide membrane

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 896-905

  Pai, Yi Hao ^a,b   Lin, Gong Ru ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ALUMINUM; ANNEALING; ATOMS; DIFFUSION; NANORODS; OXIDES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

AAO MEMBRANE; ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; ATOMIC DIFFUSIONS; DIFFUSION CONTROLLED GROWTH MECHANISMS; DIFFUSION LENGTH; EXPONENTIAL TRENDS; GEOMETRIC DIMENSIONS; HOST MATRICES; LOW TEMPERATURE ANNEALING; NANO-POROUS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PEAK INTENSITY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; QUANTUM DOTS; RED-SHIFTED; SELF AGGREGATION; SI ATOMS; SI QUANTUM DOT; SPECTRAL LINE WIDTH; STANDARD DEVIATION;

SILICON;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; NANOMATERIAL; QUANTUM DOT; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; POROSITY;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; POROSITY; QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 78751488519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000896     Document Type: Article

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