Effects of surface oxide formation on germanium nanowire band-edge photoluminescence

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 25, 2013, Pages

  Minaye Hashemi, Fatemeh Sadat ^a,b   Thombare, Shruti ^a   Morral, Anna Fontcuberta I ^b   Brongersma, Mark L ^a   McIntyre, Paul C ^a,c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING CONDITION; BAND-EDGE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; GERMANIUM NANOWIRES; NONRADIATIVE RECOMBINATION CENTERS; SINGLE CRYSTAL NANOWIRES; SURFACE OXIDE FORMATION; SURFACE OXIDE LAYER; VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID METHODS;

GERMANIUM; PHOTOELECTRONS; VAPORS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 84879871885     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4812334     Document Type: Article

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