Near-Unity Internal Quantum Efficiency of Luminescent Silicon Nanocrystals with Ligand Passivation

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 7097-7104

  Sangghaleh, Fatemeh ^a   Sychugov, Ilya ^a   Yang, Zhenyu ^b   Veinot, Jonathan G C ^b   Linnros, Jan ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

dispersion factor; lifetime; nonradiative channel; photoluminescence decay; radiative rate

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); LIGANDS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PASSIVATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM YIELD;

DISPERSION FACTOR; LIFETIME; NON-RADIATIVE CHANNELS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE DECAY; RADIATIVE RATES;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84938153097     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01717     Document Type: Article

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