Narrow luminescence linewidth of a silicon quantum dot

• Single-dot luminescence spectroscopy was used to study the emission linewidth of individual silicon nanocrystals from low temperatures up to room temperature. The results show a continuous line narrowing towards lower temperatures with a linewidth as sharp as 2 meV at 35 K. This value, clearly below the thermal broadening at this temperature, proves the atomiclike emission from silicon quantum dots subject to quantum confinement. The low temperature measurements further reveal a similar to6 meV replica, whose origin is discussed. In addition, an similar to60 meV TO-phonon replica was detected, which is only present in a fraction of the dots.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

electron-phonon interactions

photoluminescence spectroscopy

semiconductor nanocrystals

porous silicon

confinement

Physics

Fysik

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