Optical Properties of Intrinsic and Shallow Impurity-Doped Silicon Nanocrystals

Silicon Nanocrystals: Fundamentals, Synthesis and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 43-68

  Fujii, Minoru ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bohr radius; Electronic band structure; High energy shift; Impurity number; Luminescence; Si nanocrystals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888756226     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527629954.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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