Quantum confinement in amorphous silicon quantum dots embedded in silicon nitride.
Amorphous silicon quantum dots (a-Si QDs) were grown in a silicon nitride film by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Transmission electron micrographs clearly demonstrated that a-Si QDs were formed in the silicon nitride. Photoluminescence and optical absorption energy measurement of a-Si QDs with various sizes revealed that tuning of the photoluminescence emission from 2.0 to 2.76 eV is possible by controlling the size of the a-Si QD. Analysis also showed that the photoluminescence peak energy E was related to the size of the a-Si QD, a (nm) by E(eV) = 1.56+2.40/a(2), which is a clear evidence for the quantum confinement effect in a-Si QDs.
Park
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Center for Optoelectronic Materials Research, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Kwangju, 500-712, Korea.
Choi
C J
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Seong
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Park
S J
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