ABSORPTION AND EMISSION OF LIGHT IN NANOSCALE SILICON STRUCTURES

被引:372
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HYBERTSEN, MS
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[1] AT and T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.1514
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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A unified model of phonon-assisted and zero-phonon radiative transitions in nanoscale silicon structures is presented. For characteristic size above 15-20 angstrom, phonon-assisted transitions dominate, while zero-phonon transitions, allowed due to the finite-size effect, are more important for smaller length scales. Light emission from Porous silicon is analyzed on the basis of these results showing that phonon-assisted transitions should dominate the emission in the observed red band.
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页码:1514 / 1517
页数:4
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