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Published on: November 9, 2015
Controlled chemical etching for silicon nanocrystals with wavelength-tunable photoluminescence
Keisuke Sato1, Hiroaki Tsuji, Kenji Hirakuri
1World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. Sato.Keisuke@nims.go.jp
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 27, 2009
Abstract:
The size of silicon nanocrystals is finely tuned by applying a chemical etching process, leading to differently coloured visible luminescence.
