Surface Recombination Velocity Measurements of Efficiently Passivated Gold-Catalyzed Silicon Nanowires by a New Optical Method

被引：54

作者：

Demichel, O. ^{[1
]}

Calvo, V. ^{[1
]}

Besson, A. ^{[1
]}

Noe, P. ^{[1
]}

Salem, B. ^{[2
]}

Pauc, N. ^{[1
]}

Oehler, F. ^{[1
]}

Gentile, P. ^{[1
]}

Magnea, N. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Commissariat Energie Atom, Inst Nanosci & Cryogenie, Serv Phys Mat & Microstruct, Lab Silicium Nanoelect Photon & Struct, F-38054 Grenoble, France

[2] CNRS CEA, Lab Technol Microelect, UMR 5129, F-38054 Grenoble, France

来源：

NANO LETTERS | 2010年 / 10卷 / 07期

关键词：

Nanowire; surface recombination velocity; passivation; silicon; gold-catalyzed; LIQUID; DYNAMICS;

D O I：

10.1021/nl903166t

中图分类号：

O6 [化学];

学科分类号：

0703 ;

摘要：

The past decade has seen the explosion of experimental results on nanowires grown by catalyzed mechanisms However, few are known on their electronic properties especially the influence of surfaces and catalysts We demonstrate by an optical method how a curious electron-hole thermodynamic phase can help to characterize volume and surface recombination rates of silicon nanowires (SiNWs) By studying the electron-hole liquid dynamics as a function of the spatial confinement, we directly measured these two key parameters We measured a surface recombination velocity of passivated SiNWs of 20 cm s(-1), 100 times lower than previous values reported Furthermore, the volume recombination rate of gold-catalyzed SiNWs is found to be similar to that of a high-quality three-dimensional silicon crystal, the influence of the catalyst is negligible These results advance the knowledge of SiNW surface passivation and provide essential guidance to the development of efficient nanowire-based devices

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页码：2323 / 2329

页数：7

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