Silicon Nanoparticles with Surface Nitrogen: 90% Quantum Yield with Narrow Luminescence Bandwidth and the Ligand Structure Based Energy Law

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 8385-8393

  Li, Qi ^a   Luo, Tian Yi ^b   Zhou, Meng ^a   Abroshan, Hadi ^a   Huang, Jingchun ^c   Kim, Hyung J ^a,d   Rosi, Nathaniel L ^b   Shao, Zhengzhong ^c   Jin, Rongchao ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Korea Institute for Advanced Study   (South Korea)

Author keywords

narrow bandwidth; PL energy law; quantum dots; silicon nanoparticles; ultrabright fluorescence

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LIGANDS; LIGHT EMISSION; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; NITROGEN; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM YIELD; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS; INTRINSIC MERITS; LIGAND STRUCTURE; NARROW BANDWIDTH; PL ENERGY LAW; PL QUANTUM YIELD; SILICON NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE NITROGEN;

SILICON;

EID: 84989213233     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b03113     Document Type: Review

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