Understanding the parameters affecting the photoluminescence of silicon nanoparticles

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 116, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 11315-11325

  Llansola Portolés, Manuel J ^a   Pis Diez, Reinaldo ^b   Dell'Arciprete, María L ^a   Caregnato, Paula ^a   Romero, Juan José ^a   Mártire, Daniel O ^a   Azzaroni, Omar ^a   Ceolín, Marcelo ^a   Gonzalez, Mónica C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES FISICOQUÍMICAS TEÓRICAS Y APLICADAS INIFTA   (Argentina)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS EXACTAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE-SHIFTED; DIFFERENT EFFECTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; EXCITATION EMISSION MATRICES; EXCITATION-EMISSION SPECTRA; HF ETCHING; PARTICLE SURFACE; PURE SUBSTANCES; SILICON CORES; SILICON NANOPARTICLES; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; SURFACE OXIDATIONS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIME-RESOLVED; TIME-RESOLVED ANISOTROPY; TOPDOWN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY TEM; WET METHOD;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

SILICON OXIDES;

EID: 84861510556     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp2117938     Document Type: Article

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