Optical and Structural Properties of Si Nanocrystals in SiO2 Films

T Nikitin, L Khriachtchev - Nanomaterials, 2015 - mdpi.com
Optical and structural properties of Si nanocrystals (Si-nc) in silica films are described. For
the SiO x (x< 2) films annealed above 1000° C, the Raman signal of Si-nc and the …

Accurate and efficient prediction of optical gaps in silicon and germanium nanoparticles using a high-local-exchange density functional

C Villot, KU Lao - Chemical Physics Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigated the HOMO-LUMO gaps and the optical gaps of Si and Ge nanoparticles
(NPs) with various terminations and sizes using different functionals (HLE16, B3LYP, HSE …

[BOOK][B] Silicon nanophotonics: basic principles, present status, and perspectives

L Khriachtchev - 2016 - books.google.com
Photonics is a key technology of this century. The combination of photonics and silicon
technology is of great importance because of the potentiality of coupling electronics and …

Single-particle states in spherical quantum dots

AS Moskalenko, J Berakdar, AA Prokofiev… - Physical Review B …, 2007 - APS
We calculate the ground and excited electron and hole levels in spherical Si quantum dots
inside Si O 2 in a multiband effective mass approximation. The Luttinger Hamiltonian is used …

An energetics assessment of benzo [a] tetracene and benzo [a] pyrene as triplet–triplet annihilation emitters

X Wang, N Marom - Molecular Systems Design & Engineering, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Optical upconversion (UC) of low energy photons into high energy photons enables solar
cells to harvest photons with energies below the band gap of the absorber, reducing the …

Configuration-interaction excitonic absorption in small Si/Ge and Ge/Si core/shell nanocrystals

EL De Oliveira, EL Albuquerque… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The excitonic properties of Si (core)/Ge (shell) and Ge (core)/Si (shell) nanocrystals (NC's)
with diameters of∼ 1.9 nm are investigated using a combination density functional ab initio …

Red states versus blue states in colloidal silicon nanocrystals: exciton sequestration into low-density traps

J Fuzell, A Thibert, TM Atkins, M Dasog… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The ultrafast exciton photodynamics of red-emitting and blue-emitting colloidal Si
nanocrystals are contrasted under low (1.5 mJ/cm2) and high (9.1 mJ/cm2) excitation …

Role of the interface for the electronic structure of Si quantum dots

D König, J Rudd, MA Green, G Conibeer - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2008 - APS
Approximants consisting of 1–165 Si atoms with complete fluorine (F), hydroxyl (OH), amino
(NH 2), methyl (CH 3), and hydrogen (H) termination were investigated by density-functional …

Solid-state synthesis of Si 1− x Ge x nanoalloys with composition-tunable energy gaps and visible to near infrared optical properties

GC Spence, DS Pate, C Villot, RM Fouzie, LS Graves… - Nanoscale, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Si1− xGex alloy nanocrystals (NCs) are a class of benign semiconductors that show size
and composition-tunable energy gaps and promising optical properties because of the …

Light emission from silicon nanocrystals

OB Gusev, AN Poddubny, AA Prokofiev, IN Yassievich - Semiconductors, 2013 - Springer
The main experimental results of studies of the photoluminescence of silicon nanocrystals
and theoretical methods developed for the description of optical processes occurring in them …