title: Organic solvent induced quenching of porous silicon photoluminescence.
abstract: A comparison has been made for the quenching effect of three classes of organic solvents on the porous silicon photoluminescence, including hydrocarbons, solvents containing oxygen and nitrogen. Among them organoamines possess the strongest quenching effect. The experiments show that the solvent molecules interact synergistically with porous silicon and the main pathways include the surface hydrophobic interaction, dipole-dipole interaction and hole trapping, the later being the dominant pathway in quenching of porous silicon photoluminescence.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemometrics and Chemical Sensing Technology, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering College, Hunan University, Changsha, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: R Q
authors.initials: RQ
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D006838:Hydrocarbons; D049449:Luminescence; D012825:Silicon; D012997:Solvents; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D006838:Hydrocarbons; D012997:Solvents; D012825:Silicon