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Size, Shape, and Crystallinity of Luminescent Structures in Oxidized Si Nanoclusters and H-Passivated Porous Si

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

S. Schuppler ,
S. L. Friedman ,
M. A. Marcus ,
D.L. Adler ,
Y.-H. Xie ,
F. M. Ross ,
T. D. Harris ,
W.L. Brown ,
Y. J. Chabal  and
P. J. Szajowski
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S. Schuppler
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
S. L. Friedman
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
M. A. Marcus
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
D.L. Adler
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
Y.-H. Xie
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
F. M. Ross
Affiliation:
National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
T. D. Harris
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
W.L. Brown
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
Y. J. Chabal
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
P. J. Szajowski
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
E. E. Chaban
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
L. E. Brus
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
P. H. Citrin
Affiliation:
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
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Abstract

Near-edge and extended x-ray absorption fine structure measurements from a wide variety of H-passivated porous Si samples and oxidized Si nanocrystals, combined with electron microscopy, ir-absorption, α-recoil, and luminescence emission data, provide a consistent structural picture of the species responsible for the luminescence observed in these systems. For luminescent porous Si samples peaking in the visible region, i. e., ≤700nm, their mass-weighted-average structures are determined here to be particles–not wires, whose short-range character is crystalline – not amorphous, and whose dimensions – typically <15 Å – are significantly smaller than previously reported or proposed. These results depend only on sample luminescence behavior, not on sample preparation details, and thus have general implications in describing the mechanism responsible for visible luminescence in porous silicon. New results are also presented which demonstrate that the observed luminescence is unrelated to either the photo-oxidized Si species in porous Si or the interfacial suboxide species in the Si nanocrystals.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 358: Symposium F – Microcrystalline and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors , 1994 , 407
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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