As the most fundamental material for microelectronics, silicon (Si) has bourgeoned in the
past more than half a century. However, given the indirect bandgap of Si, the use of Si in …

Silicon nanocrystals have been widely investigated for several years because of their many
interesting properties and their potential use in several applications. This field has grown …

Hot Carrier cells aim to collect hot carriers resulting from photon absorption before they
thermalise. This requires slowed carrier cooling in an absorber material and collection …

Multiple layers of Si quantum dots (QDs) in SiO2 with a narrow size distribution were
synthesized by a co-sputtering technique. Structural, electrical and optical properties of Si …

The ability to incorporate a dopant element into silicon nanocrystals (NC) and quantum dots
(QD) is one of the key technical challenges for the use of these materials in a number of …

Since its invention in the 1950s, semiconductor solar cell technology has evolved in great
leaps and bounds. Solar power is now being considered as a serious leading contender for …

Amorphous hydrogenated silicon-rich silicon carbide (a-Si0. 8C0. 2: H) thin films were
prepared by plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition and were thermally annealed in …

Amorphous Si 1− x C x/SiC multilayer films were prepared by alternating deposition of Si-
rich Si 1− x C x and near-stoichiometric SiC layers by using magnetron sputtering. The as …

Silicon nanocrystals (Si-nc) is an enabling material for silicon photonics, which is no longer
an emerging field of research but an available technology with the first commercial products …

Do** of Si nanocrystals is an important topic in the emerging field of Si nanocrystals
based all-Si tandem solar cells. Boron-doped Si nanocrystals embedded in a silicon dioxide …