Silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) hold great promise for many future technologies. Silicon is
already at the core of photovoltaics and microelectronics, and SiQDs are capable of efficient …

Motivated by the necessity to have all silicon optoelectronic circuits, researchers around the
world are working with light emitting silicon materials. Such materials are silicon dielectric …

Crystalline silicon (Si) nanoparticles present an extremely promising object for bioimaging
based on photoluminescence (PL) in the visible and near-infrared spectral regions, but their …

Photonics is a key technology of this century. The combination of photonics and silicon
technology is of great importance because of the potentiality of coupling electronics and …

The SF 6/Ar reactive ion beam etching (RIBE) was proposed to explore the evolution of
surface quality, subsurface defects, surface molecular structure, and chemical composition …

The charging of insulating samples degrades the quality and complicates the interpretation
of images in scanning electron microscopy and is important in other applications, such as …

Spatially and spectrally resolved low-energy cathodoluminescence (CL) microscopy was
applied to the characterization of nanostructures. CL has the advantage of revealing not only …

The origin of yellow cathodoluminescence (CL) in quartz has been investigated by a
combination of CL microscopy and spectroscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) …

The phosphorous (P) doping induced defects and deviation in microstructural properties of a-
Si: H films have been investigated by Infrared (IR), Raman and Cathodoluminescence (CL) …

The results of the optical spectroscopy of twofold coordinated silicon centers–ODC (II) in
quartz and cristobalite glasses are presented. The luminescence and excitation spectra …