Codoping n- and p-type impurities in colloidal silicon nanocrystals: Controlling luminescence energy from below bulk band gap to visible range

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 11850-11857

  Sugimoto, Hiroshi ^a   Fujii, Minoru ^a   Imakita, Kenji ^a   Hayashi, Shinji ^a   Akamatsu, Kensuke ^b  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KONAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHELATION; COLLOIDS; ENERGY GAP; NANOCRYSTALS;

BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; LUMINESCENCE ENERGY; P-TYPE IMPURITIES; SI-BASED OPTOELECTRONICS; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; SIMULTANEOUS DOPING; WIDE ENERGY RANGE;

SILICON;

EID: 84879372136     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp4027767     Document Type: Article

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