LUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES OF NANOMETER-SIZED SI CRYSTALLITES - CORE AND SURFACE-STATES

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KANEMITSU, Y
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[1] Institute of Physics, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba
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10.1103/PhysRevB.49.16845
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T [工业技术];
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We have studied the mechanism of visible photoluminescence (PL) from surface-oxidized Si crystallites of 3.7 nm diameter. Under intense laser-pulse illumination, two PL bands are clearly observed: a fast-decay blue-green PL band and a slow-decay red PL band. Time-resolved PL-spectrum measurements indicate that carriers generated in the core state are rapidly localized into the lower-energy surface states. Spectroscopic analysis indicates that the slow-decay red PL is caused by the hopping-limited recombination process in the surface-localized state of the crystallite, while the blue-green PL is caused by the band-edge emission from the core state of the crystallite.
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