Carriers multiplication in neighboring surfactant-free silicon nanocrystals produced by 3D-surface engineering in liquid medium.

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 101-104

  Svrcek, Vladimir ^a   Mariotti, Davide ^b   Matsubara, Koiji ^a   Kondo, Michio ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

carrier multiplication; silicon nanocrystals; surface engineering

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; ABSORBED PHOTONS; CARRIER MULTIPLICATION; CLOSE PROXIMITY; EXCITATION WAVELENGTH; LASER PROCESS; LASER TREATMENT; LIQUID MEDIUM; LIQUID SOLUTION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUANTUM YIELDS; QUANTUM CUTTING; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; SURFACE ENGINEERING; SURFACTANT-FREE; THEORETICAL LIMITS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LASERS; LIQUIDS; QUANTUM YIELD; SURFACES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

SILICON;

EID: 84869480737     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2012.6317577     Document Type: Conference Paper

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