Silicon compound nanomaterials: Exploring emission mechanisms and photobiological applications

A Dutt, RA Salinas, SE Martínez-Tolibia… - Advanced Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
After the first visible photoluminescence (PL) from porous silicon (pSi), continuous efforts are
made to fabricate Si‐based compound nanomaterials embedded in matrices such as oxide …

Silicon nanoporous pillar array: a silicon hierarchical structure with high light absorption and triple-band photoluminescence

HJ Xu, XJ Li - Optics express, 2008 - opg.optica.org
A silicon hierarchical structure, silicon nanoporous pillar array (Si-NPA), was prepared by a
hydrothermal etching method. The architecture of Si-NPA was characterized to be a regular …

X-ray-diffraction study of crystalline Si nanocluster formation in annealed silicon-rich silicon oxides

D Comedi, OHY Zalloum, EA Irving, J Wojcik… - Journal of applied …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
The formation and subsequent growth of crystalline silicon nanoclusters (Si-ncs) in
annealed silicon-rich silicon oxides (SRSOs) were studied by glancing angle x-ray …

Silicon nanocrystal formation in annealed silicon-rich silicon oxide films prepared by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition

N Daldosso, G Das, S Larcheri, G Mariotto… - Journal of Applied …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
Silicon-rich silicon oxide films deposited by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition
with different total Si contents (from 39 to 46 at.%⁠) have been annealed at increasing …

Femtosecond ablation of silicon in acetone: tunable photoluminescence from generated nanoparticles and fabrication of surface nanostructures

S Hamad, GK Podagatlapalli… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Silicon (Si) nanoparticles (NPs) and self-organized high spatial frequency laser (HSFL)
induced periodic surface structures were fabricated by means of femtosecond ablation of …

Compositional, Optical and Electrical Characteristics of SiOx Thin Films Deposited by Reactive Pulsed DC Magnetron Sputtering

JO Carneiro, F Machado, L Rebouta, MI Vasilevskiy… - Coatings, 2019 - mdpi.com
The influence of O2 flow rate on the compositional, optical and electrical characteristics of
silicon oxide (SiO x) thin films (x< 2) were studied in this work. The SiO x thin films were …

Size dependent swift heavy ion induced Au nanoparticle elongation in SiO2 matrix

S Korkos, K Mizohata, S Kinnunen… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The elongation of spherical Au nanoparticles embedded in SiO 2 under swift heavy ion (SHI)
irradiation is an extensively studied phenomenon. The use of a TEM grid as a substrate …

Blue light-emitting Si quantum dots with mesoporous and amorphous features: origin of photoluminescence and potential applications

A Guleria, S Neogy, DK Maurya… - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Recently, Si quantum dots (QDs) with porous and amorphous characteristics have shown
tremendous potential applications in photovoltaics and biomedical fields. However, in …

Formation of size controlled silicon nanocrystals in nitrogen free silicon dioxide matrix prepared by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition

J Laube, S Gutsch, D Hiller, M Bruns, C Kübel… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
This paper reports the growth of silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) from SiH4–O 2 plasma
chemistry. The formation of an oxynitride was avoided by using O 2 instead of the widely …

Resolving the nanostructure of plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposited nanocrystalline SiOx layers for application in solar cells

M Klingsporn, S Kirner, C Villringer… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Nanocrystalline silicon suboxides (nc-SiO x) have attracted attention during the past years
for the use in thin-film silicon solar cells. We investigated the relationships between the …