High quantum yield dual emission from gas-phase grown crystalline Si nanoparticles

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 10375-10383

  Botas, A M P ^a,b   Ferreira, R A S ^b   Pereira, R N ^a,c   Anthony, R J ^d   Moura, T ^a,b   Rowe, D J ^d   Kortshagen, U ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EXPERIMENTS; LIGHT EMISSION; NANOPARTICLES; QUANTUM YIELD; SILICON;

DIFFERENT TIME SCALE; EMISSION MECHANISM; EMISSION QUANTUM YIELD; EXCITONIC EMISSION; NATURAL OXIDATION; PHOTOGENERATED ELECTRONS; RECOMBINATION MECHANISMS; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 84900801580     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5000683     Document Type: Article

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