Evolution of the ultrafast photoluminescence of colloidal silicon nanocrystals with changing surface chemistry

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 595-605

  Yang, Zhenyu ^a   De Los Reyes, Glenda B ^a   Titova, Lyubov V ^a,c   Sychugov, Ilya ^b   Dasog, Mita ^a   Linnros, Jan ^b   Hegmann, Frank A ^a   Veinot, Jonathan G C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

nanosecond lifetime; photoluminescence; silicon nanocrystals; surface functionalization

Indexed keywords

HYDROSILYLATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SILICON; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

HYDROSILYLATION REACTION; NANOSECOND LIFETIME; PHOTOCHEMICAL HYDROSILYLATION; RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION PROCESS; RELATIVE CONCENTRATION; SILICON NANOCRYSTALS; SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION; TIME-RESOLVED PL MEASUREMENT;

SURFACE DEFECTS;

EID: 84930202369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00143     Document Type: Article

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