PHOTOINDUCED HYDROGEN LOSS FROM POROUS SILICON

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COLLINS, RT
TISCHLER, MA
STATHIS, JH
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[1] IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights
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10.1063/1.108440
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O59 [应用物理学];
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In this letter we show that UV illumination of porous silicon causes a decrease ill its luminescence efficiency. Infrared measurements allow us to associate the efficiency decrease with a loss of hydrogen from the silicon surface. We also find that the rate at which the luminescence intensity degrades increases rapidly when the illumination energy exceeds a threshold near 3.0 eV. We conclude that the decrease in photoluminescence efficiency occurs as a result of optically induced hydrogen desorption and discuss possible explanations for the energy threshold.
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