Light emission from silicon with tin-containing nanocrystals

Autor: Søren Roesgaard, Jacques Chevallier, Peter I. Gaiduk, John Lundsgaard Hansen, Pia Bomholt Jensen, Arne Nylandsted Larsen, Axel Svane, Peter Balling, Brian Julsgaard
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: AIP Advances, Vol 5, Iss 7, Pp 077114-077114-6 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2158-3226
DOI: 10.1063/1.4926596
Popis: Tin-containing nanocrystals, embedded in silicon, have been fabricated by growing an epitaxial layer of Si1−x−ySnxCy, where x = 1.6 % and y = 0.04 % on a silicon substrate, followed by annealing at various temperatures ranging from 650 ∘C to 900 ∘C. The nanocrystal density and average diameters are determined by scanning transmission-electron microscopy to ≈1017 cm−3 and ≈5 nm, respectively. Photoluminescence spectroscopy demonstrates that the light emission is very pronounced for samples annealed at 725 ∘C, and Rutherford back-scattering spectrometry shows that the nanocrystals are predominantly in the diamond-structured phase at this particular annealing temperature. The origin of the light emission is discussed.
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