Quantum confinement in amorphous silicon quantum dots embedded in silicon nitride

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Park, NM
Choi, CJ
Seong, TY
Park, SJ [1 ]
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[1] Kwangju Inst Sci & Technol, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, Kwangju 500712, South Korea
[2] Kwangju Inst Sci & Technol, Ctr Optoelect Mat Res, Kwangju 500712, South Korea
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1355
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Amorphous silicon quantum dots (a-Si QDs) were grown in a silicon nitride film by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Transmission electron micrographs clearly demonstrated that tr-Si QDs were formed in the silicon nitride. Photoluminescence and optical absorption energy measurement of cl-Si QDs with various sizes revealed that tuning of the photoluminescence emission from 2.0 to 2.76 eV is possible by controlling the size of the tr-Si QD. Analysis also showed that the photoluminescence peak energy E was related to the size of the a-Si QD, a (nm) by E(eV) = 1.56 + 2.40/a(2). which is a clear evidence for the quantum confinement effect in a-Si QDs.
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