Optical Properties of Nanostructured Silicon

Comprehensive Nanoscience and Technology

Volumn 1-5, Issue , 2011, Pages 543-570

  Chao, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Nanocrystals; Nanoparticles; Photoluminescence; Porous silicon; Quantum confinement; Quantum dots; Size effect; X ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS); X ray excited optical luminescence (XEOL)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019836348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374396-1.00039-8     Document Type: Chapter

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