Temperature dependence and aging effects on silicon nanowires photoluminescence

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1483-1490

  Artoni, Pietro ^a,b   Irrera, Alessia ^a   Iacona, Fabio ^a   Pecora, Emanuele F ^a,b   Franzò, Giorgia ^a   Priolo, Francesco ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROFLUORIC ACID; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOWIRES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM THEORY; WET ETCHING;

AGING EFFECTS; CONFINED EXCITONS; LUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES; MASK LESS; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; PL PROPERTY; PUMP POWER; RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION; ROOM-TEMPERATURE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SI NANOWIRE; SI SUBSTRATES; SILICON NANOWIRES; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TIME-RESOLVED;

SILICON;

NANOWIRE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; SILICON; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84855945552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.001483     Document Type: Article

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