Small Silicon, Big Opportunities: The Development and Future of Colloidally‐Stable Monodisperse Silicon Nanocrystals

ML Mastronardi, EJ Henderson, DP Puzzo, GA Ozin - 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Nanomaterials are becoming increasingly widespread in consumer technologies, but there
is global concern about the toxicity of nanomaterials to humans and the environment as they …

Edge-emitting silicon nanocrystal distributed feedback laser with extremely low exciton threshold

P Zeng, F Wang, Y Zhang, W Zhou, Z Guo, X Wu… - Acs …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The successful integration of a laser into the silicon photonic chip has long been the holy
grail of silicon photonics. Among the various methods addressing this challenge, silicon …

Thermal disproportionation for the synthesis of silicon nanocrystals and their photoluminescent properties

Y Su, C Wang, Z Hong, W Sun - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In the past decades, silicon nanocrystals have received vast attention and have been widely
studied owing to not only their advantages including nontoxicity, high availability, and …

Gas-phase hydrosilylation of plasma-synthesized silicon nanocrystals with short-and long-chain alkynes

SL Weeks, B Macco, MCM Van De Sanden, S Agarwal - Langmuir, 2012 - ACS Publications
Surface passivation of Si nanocrystals (NCs) is necessary to enable their utilization in novel
photovoltaic and optoelectronic devices. Herein, we report the surface passivation of plasma …

Raman spectroscopy hyperspectral imager based on Bragg tunable filters

S Marcet, M Verhaegen… - … , and Actuation for …, 2012 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A new type of Raman spectroscopy hyperspectral imager based on Bragg tunable filter has
been developed by University of Montreal and Photon etc. The technology of Bragg tunable …

Gas phase surface functionalization of group IV nanostructures

SL Weeks - 2014-Mines Theses & Dissertations, 2014 - repository.mines.edu
The advent of group IV nanostructures has generated a large interest in the use of these
structures to improve the performance in next generation electronic and optoelectronic …