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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 19, Issue 26, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/19/26/266212
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First- principles density functional calculations were performed to study strain effects on the energy gaps in silicon nanoclusters with diameter ranging from 0.6 to 2 nm. Hydrostatic and non- hydrostatic strains have been found to affect the energy gaps differently. For the same strain energy density, nonhydrostatic strain leads to a significantly larger change in the energy gap of silicon clusters compared to that of the hydrostatic strain case. In contrast, hydrostatic and non- hydrostatic strain effects on the energy gaps of bulk Si or larger size Si quantum dots are comparable. Non- hydrostatic strains break the tetrahedral bonding symmetry in silicon, resulting in significant variation in the energy gaps due to the splitting of the degenerate orbitals in the clusters. Our results suggest that the combination of energy gaps and strains permits the engineering of photoluminescence in silicon nanoclusters and offers the possibility of designing novel optical devices and chemical sensors.
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