[HTML][HTML] Quantum confinement in Si and Ge nanostructures: Theory and experiment

EG Barbagiovanni, DJ Lockwood, PJ Simpson… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The role of quantum confinement (QC) in Si and Ge nanostructures (NSs) including quantum
dots, quantum wires, and quantum wells is assessed under a wide variety of fabrication …

Exciton resonances for atomically-thin optics

J Lynch, L Guarneri, D Jariwala… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Metasurfaces enable flat optical elements by leveraging optical resonances in metallic or
dielectric nanoparticles to obtain accurate control over the amplitude and phase of the …

Silicon nanocrystals as an enabling material for silicon photonics

Z Yuan, A Anopchenko, N Daldosso… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

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 …

Electrical and optical characteristics of silicon nanocrystal solar cells

SK Kim, CH Cho, BH Kim, SJ Park… - Applied Physics Letters, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We investigated the relationship between the absorption in silicon nanocrystals (Si NCs)
and the photocurrent of Si NC solar cells. Here, the absorption of Si NCs in the blue and …

Efficiency limits of Si/SiO2 quantum well solar cells from first-principles calculations

T Kirchartz, K Seino, JM Wagner, U Rau… - Journal of Applied …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
In order to investigate the applicability of new photovoltaic absorber materials, we show how
to use first-principles calculations combined with device simulations to determine the …

[BUCH][B] Generalized detailed balance theory of solar cells

T Kirchartz - 2009 - books.google.com
2 Fundamentals 13 2.1 The principle of detailed balance 13 2.2 The Shockley-Queisser limit
14 2.3 Combining transport with detailed balance 18 2.3. 1 A two state solar cell model 18 …

Size-dependent photocurrent of photodetectors with silicon nanocrystals

SK Kim, BH Kim, CH Cho, SJ Park - Applied Physics Letters, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We report on the effect of nanocrystal size on the photocurrent of silicon nanocrystal (Si NC)
photodetectors. The photocurrent onset energy was increased with decreasing the size of Si …

Reactive dc magnetron sputtering of (GeOx–SiO2) superlattices for Ge nanocrystal formation

M Zschintzsch, NM Jeutter, J Von Borany… - Journal of Applied …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The motivation of this work is the tailored growth of Ge nanocrystals for photovoltaic
applications. The use of superlattices provides a reliable method to control the Ge …

Turning Low-Nanoscale Intrinsic Silicon Highly Electron-Conductive by SiO2 Coating

D Konig, M Frentzen, N Wilck, B Berghoff… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Impurity do** in silicon (Si) ultra-large-scale integration is one of the key challenges which
prevent further device miniaturization. Using ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy and X …