Experimental investigations and modeling of Auger recombination in silicon nanocrystals

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5963-5968

  Trinh, M Tuan ^a,b   Limpens, Rens ^a   Gregorkiewicz, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUGER RECOMBINATION; BANDGAP MATERIALS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FEMTOSECOND PUMP-PROBE TECHNIQUES; NON-RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION CHANNELS; NON-RADIATIVE RECOMBINATIONS; NONRADIATIVE RELAXATION PROCESS; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS;

EXCITONS; NANOCRYSTALS; SILICON OXIDES;

AUGERS;

EID: 84875463248     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp311124c     Document Type: Article

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