Changes in the electronic properties of Si nanocrystals as a function of particle size

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作者
van Buuren, T [1 ]
Dinh, LN [1 ]
Chase, LL [1 ]
Siekhaus, WJ [1 ]
Terminello, LJ [1 ]
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[1] Univ Calif Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Dept Chem & Mat Sci, Livermore, CA 94550 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.3803
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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X-ray absorption and photoemission spectra have been used to measure the band edges of silicon nanocrystals with average diameters ranging from 1 to 5 nm. We compare the experimentally measured band edges to recent electronic structure calculations and find that the experimentally measured band gap is smaller than that predicted by theory.
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