Optical properties and sub-bandgap formation of nano-crystalline Si quantum dots embedded ZnO thin film

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 10470-10475

  Kuo, Kuang Yang ^a   Hsu, Shu Wei ^a   Huang, Pin Ruei ^a   Chuang, Wen Ling ^a   Liu, Chuan Cheng ^a   Lee, Po Tsung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ENERGY GAP; METALLIC FILMS; OPTICAL FILMS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; ZINC OXIDE;

ELECTRO-OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; HIGH CRYSTALLINITY; HIGH TRANSMISSION; LONG WAVELENGTH; MULTILAYER DEPOSITIONS; NANOCRYSTALLINE SI; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE EMISSION; PL EMISSION; POST ANNEALING; SHORT-WAVELENGTH; SUBBAND-GAP; ZNO; ZNO MATRIX; ZNO THIN FILM;

SILICON;

QUANTUM DOT; SILICON; ZINC OXIDE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ABSORPTION; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84861119846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010470     Document Type: Article

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