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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 82, Issue 10, Pages 1595-1597Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1558894
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Photoluminescence lifetimes and optical absorption cross sections of Si nanocrystals embedded in SiO2 have been studied as a function of their average size and emission energy. The lifetimes span from 20 mus for the smallest sizes (2.5 nm) to more than 200 mus for the largest ones (7 nm). The passivation of nonradiative interface states by hydrogenation increases the lifetime for a given size. In contrast with porous Si, the cross section per nanocrystal shows a nonmonotonic behavior with emission energy. In fact, although the density of states above the gap increases for larger nanocrystals, this trend is compensated by a stronger reduction of the oscillator strength, providing an overall reduction of the absorption cross section per nanocrystal for increasing size. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.
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