The structural and luminescence properties of porous silicon

AG Cullis, LT Canham, PDJ Calcott - Journal of applied physics, 1997 - pubs.aip.org
A large amount of work world-wide has been directed towards obtaining an understanding
of the fundamental characteristics of porous Si. Much progress has been made following the …

Porous silicon: a quantum sponge structure for silicon based optoelectronics

O Bisi, S Ossicini, L Pavesi - Surface science reports, 2000 - Elsevier
The striking photoluminescence properties of porous silicon have attracted considerable
research interest since their discovery in 1990. Luminescence is due to excitonic …

Semiconductor quantum dots and related systems: electronic, optical, luminescence and related properties of low dimensional systems

AD Yoffe - Advances in physics, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
This review seeks to extend the scope of both the experimental and theoreticalwork carried
out since I completed my 1993 review on the electronic, optical, andto a lesser extent, the …

Nonthermal plasma synthesis of nanocrystals: fundamental principles, materials, and applications

UR Kortshagen, RM Sankaran, RN Pereira… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nonthermal plasmas have emerged as a viable synthesis technique for nanocrystal
materials. Inherently solvent and ligand-free, nonthermal plasmas offer the ability to …

[BOOK][B] Silicon fundamentals for photonics applications

DJLL Pavesi - 2004 - Springer
The many and diverse approaches to materials science problems have greatly enhanced
our ability to engineer the physical properties of semiconductors. Silicon, of all …

Colloidal silicon quantum dots: from preparation to the modification of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) for bio-applications

X Cheng, SB Lowe, PJ Reece… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Concerns over possible toxicities of conventional metal-containing quantum dots have
inspired growing research interests in colloidal silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs), or silicon …

Complex nature of the UV and visible fluorescence of colloidal ZnO nanoparticles

S Monticone, R Tufeu, AV Kanaev - The Journal of Physical …, 1998 - ACS Publications
Time-resolved spectroscopy of colloidal ZnO nanoparticles has been carried out with a laser
excitation at 248 nm. UV and visible fluorescence has been analyzed. Except for the known …

Quantum confinement in amorphous silicon quantum dots embedded in silicon nitride

NM Park, CJ Choi, TY Seong, SJ Park - Physical review letters, 2001 - APS
Amorphous silicon quantum dots (a− Si QDs) were grown in a silicon nitride film by plasma
enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Transmission electron micrographs clearly …

Nanodiamonds and silicon quantum dots: ultrastable and biocompatible luminescent nanoprobes for long-term bioimaging

M Montalti, A Cantelli, G Battistelli - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorescence bioimaging is a powerful, versatile, method for investigating, both in vivo and
in vitro, the complex structures and functions of living organisms in real time and space, also …

Optical and electronic properties of Si nanoclusters synthesized in inverse micelles

JP Wilcoxon, GA Samara, PN Provencio - Physical Review B, 1999 - APS
Highly crystalline, size-selected silicon (Si) nanocrystals in the size range 2–10 nm were
grown in inverse micelles and their optical absorption and photoluminescence (PL) …