Silicon nanostructures for photonics and photovoltaics

Relationship between the cell thickness and the optimum period of textured back reflectors in thin-film microcrystalline silicon solar cells

(2013)   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Ultrahigh throughput plasma processing of free standing silicon nanocrystals with lognormal size distribution

(2013) İlker Doğan et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Experimental Investigations and Modeling of Auger Recombination in Silicon Nanocrystals

(2013) M. Tuan Trinh et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

A micrometre-scale Raman silicon laser with a microwatt threshold

(2013) Yasushi Takahashi et al.   NATURE

Transition from silicon nanowires to isolated quantum dots: Optical and structural evolution

(2013) Benjamin Bruhn et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Deterministic quasi-random nanostructures for photon control

(2013) Emiliano R. Martins et al.   Nature Communications

Surface brightens up Si quantum dots: direct bandgap-like size-tunable emission

(2013) Kateřina Dohnalová et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Low-Cost Post-Growth Treatments of Crystalline Silicon Nanoparticles Improving Surface and Electronic Properties

(2012) Sabrina Niesar et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

High-Quality-Factor Light-Emitting Diodes with Modified Photonic Crystal Nanocavities Including Ge Self-Assembled Quantum Dots on Silicon-On-Insulator Substrates

(2012) Xuejun Xu et al.   Applied Physics Express

Ultrathin crystalline-silicon solar cells with embedded photonic crystals

(2012) Shrestha Basu Mallick et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Extremely low surface recombination velocities in black silicon passivated by atomic layer deposition

(2012) Martin Otto et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Partially disordered photonic-crystal thin films for enhanced and robust photovoltaics

(2012) Ardavan Oskooi et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Silicon-Based Light-Emitting Devices Based on Ge Self-Assembled Quantum Dots Embedded in Optical Cavities

(2012) Xuejun Xu et al.   IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Enhancement of Light Emission from Silicon by Utilizing Photonic Nanostructures

(2012) Satoshi IWAMOTO et al.   IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRONICS

Solar energy trapping with modulated silicon nanowire photonic crystals

(2012) Guillaume Demésy et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Toward a 1.54 $\mu$m Electrically Driven Erbium-Doped Silicon Slot Waveguide and Optical Amplifier

(2012) A. Tengattini et al.   JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY

Highly Efficient Charge Separation and Collection across in Situ Doped Axial VLS-Grown Si Nanowire p–n Junctions

(2012) A. D. Mohite et al.   NANO LETTERS

Nanopatterning of silicon nanowires for enhancing visible photoluminescence

(2012) Emanuele Francesco Pecora et al.   Nanoscale

Erbium emission in MOS light emitting devices: from energy transfer to direct impact excitation

(2012) J M Ramírez et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Quantum confinement and electroluminescence in ultrathin silicon nanowires fabricated by a maskless etching technique

(2012) A Irrera et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Photonic design principles for ultrahigh-efficiency photovoltaics

(2012) Albert Polman et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

An 18.2%-efficient black-silicon solar cell achieved through control of carrier recombination in nanostructures

(2012) Jihun Oh et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Carrier multiplication between interacting nanocrystals for fostering silicon-based photovoltaics

(2012) Marco Govoni et al.   Nature Photonics

Direct generation of multiple excitons in adjacent silicon nanocrystals revealed by induced absorption

(2012) M. Tuan Trinh et al.   Nature Photonics

Ultrafast all-optical switching by single photons

(2012) Thomas Volz et al.   Nature Photonics

Emergence of colloidal quantum-dot light-emitting technologies

(2012) Yasuhiro Shirasaki et al.   Nature Photonics

Temperature dependence and aging effects on silicon nanowires photoluminescence

(2012) Pietro Artoni et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Cascaded modulator architecture for WDM applications

(2012) Kapil Debnath et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Photonic light-trapping versus Lambertian limits in thin film silicon solar cells with 1D and 2D periodic patterns

(2012) Angelo Bozzola et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Engineering Gaussian disorder at rough interfaces for light trapping in thin-film solar cells

(2012) Piotr Kowalczewski et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Single-photon nonlinear optics with Kerr-type nanostructured materials

(2012) Sara Ferretti et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Engineering gratings for light trapping in photovoltaics: The supercell concept

(2012) Emiliano R. Martins et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Microscopic Origin of the Fast Blue-Green Luminescence of Chemically Synthesized Non-oxidized Silicon Quantum Dots

(2012) Kateřina Dohnalová et al.   Small

Optical simulations of microcrystalline silicon solar cells applying plasmonic reflection grating back contacts

(2012) Ulrich W. Paetzold   Journal of Photonics for Energy

Room-temperature emission at telecom wavelengths from silicon photonic crystal nanocavities

(2011) R. Lo Savio et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Room-temperature below bulk-Si band gap photoluminescence from P and B co-doped and compensated Si nanocrystals with narrow size distributions

(2011) Masatoshi Fukuda et al.   JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE

Direct Measurement of Individual Deep Traps in Single Silicon Nanowires

(2011) E. Koren et al.   NANO LETTERS

Coexistence of 1D and Quasi-0D Photoluminescence from Single Silicon Nanowires

(2011) Jan Valenta et al.   NANO LETTERS

Fabrication of n-Type Mesoporous Silicon Nanowires by One-Step Etching

(2011) Wai-Keung To et al.   NANO LETTERS

High-Efficiency Silicon Nanocrystal Light-Emitting Devices

(2011) Kai-Yuan Cheng et al.   NANO LETTERS

Step-like enhancement of luminescence quantum yield of silicon nanocrystals

(2011) D. Timmerman et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Four-wave mixing in photonic crystal waveguides: slow light enhancement and limitations

(2011) Juntao Li et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Statistical studies of photonic heterostructure nanocavities with an average Q factor of three million

(2011) Yuki Taguchi et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

20-Gbit/s directly modulated photonic crystal nanocavity laser with ultra-low power consumption

(2011) Shinji Matsuo et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Slow-light enhanced correlated photon pair generation in a silicon photonic crystal waveguide

(2011) C. Xiong et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Optical Properties of Individual Silicon Nanowires for Photonic Devices

(2010) Gerald Brönstrup et al.   ACS Nano

Optimization of Si NC/P3HT Hybrid Solar Cells

(2010) Chin-Yi Liu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Conformal Transparent Conducting Oxides on Black Silicon

(2010) Martin Otto et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Electroluminescence from Er-doped Si-rich silicon nitride light emitting diodes

(2010) S. Yerci et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Influence of the matrix properties on the performances of Er-doped Si nanoclusters light emitting devices

(2010) Alessia Irrera et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Energy transfer mechanism and Auger effect in Er3+ coupled silicon nanoparticle samples

(2010) A. Pitanti et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

White-emitting oxidized silicon nanocrystals: Discontinuity in spectral development with reducing size

(2010) K. Dohnalová et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Measurement of Active Dopant Distribution and Diffusion in Individual Silicon Nanowires

(2010) Elad Koren et al.   NANO LETTERS

Tunable Visible and Near-IR Emission from Sub-10 nm Etched Single-Crystal Si Nanopillars

(2010) Sameer S. Walavalkar et al.   NANO LETTERS

Comparing Multiple Exciton Generation in Quantum Dots To Impact Ionization in Bulk Semiconductors: Implications for Enhancement of Solar Energy Conversion

(2010) Matthew C. Beard et al.   NANO LETTERS

Obtaining Uniform Dopant Distributions in VLS-Grown Si Nanowires

(2010) E. Koren et al.   NANO LETTERS

Erratum: Enhanced absorption and carrier collection in Si wire arrays for photovoltaic applications

(2010) Michael D. Kelzenberg et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices

(2010) Harry A. Atwater et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Red spectral shift and enhanced quantum efficiency in phonon-free photoluminescence from silicon nanocrystals

(2010) W. D. A. M. de Boer et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Silicon optical modulators

(2010) G. T. Reed et al.   Nature Photonics

Enhanced photoluminescence emission from two-dimensional silicon photonic crystal nanocavities

(2010) N Hauke et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Low-power continuous-wave generation of visible harmonics in silicon photonic crystal nanocavities

(2010) Matteo Galli et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Linewidth narrowing and Purcell enhancement in photonic crystal cavities on an Er-doped silicon nitride platform

(2010) Yiyang Gong et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Observation of Transparency of Erbium-doped Silicon nitride in photonic crystal nanobeam cavities

(2010) Yiyang Gong et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Planar photonic crystal cavities with far-field optimization for high coupling efficiency and quality factor

(2010) Simone L. Portalupi et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Loss engineered slow light waveguides

(2010) L. O’Faolain et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optimal light trapping in ultra-thin photonic crystal crystalline silicon solar cells

(2010) Shrestha Basu Mallick et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Fundamental limit of nanophotonic light trapping in solar cells

(2010) Zongfu Yu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Manipulating light with strongly modulated photonic crystals

(2010) Masaya Notomi   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Luminescent Colloidal Dispersion of Silicon Quantum Dots from Microwave Plasma Synthesis: Exploring the Photoluminescence Behavior Across the Visible Spectrum

(2009) Anoop Gupta et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

On the temperature dependence of point-defect-mediated luminescence in silicon

(2009) Daniel Recht et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

In situ passivation and blue luminescence of silicon clusters using a cluster beam/H2O codeposition production method

(2009) A. Brewer et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Prospects of Colloidal Nanocrystals for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications

(2009) Dmitri V. Talapin et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Optical gain at the F-band of oxidized silicon nanocrystals

(2009) K Dohnalová et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Silicon Nanowire-Based Solar Cells on Glass: Synthesis, Optical Properties, and Cell Parameters

(2009) V. Sivakov et al.   NANO LETTERS

Green light emission in silicon through slow-light enhanced third-harmonic generation in photonic-crystal waveguides

(2009) B. Corcoran et al.   Nature Photonics

Directive emission from high-Qphotonic crystal cavities through band folding

(2009) Nguyen-Vi-Quynh Tran et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Photonic Properties of Er-Doped Crystalline Silicon

(2009) Nguyen Quang Vinh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE

Device Requirements for Optical Interconnects to Silicon Chips

(2009) D. Miller   PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE

Single nanowire photovoltaics

(2008) Bozhi Tian et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Extended Arrays of Vertically Aligned Sub-10 nm Diameter [100] Si Nanowires by Metal-Assisted Chemical Etching

(2008) Zhipeng Huang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Direct Quantification of Gold along a Single Si Nanowire

(2008) A. Bailly et al.   NANO LETTERS

In Spite of Recent Doubts Carrier Multiplication Does Occur in PbSe Nanocrystals

(2008) M. Tuan Trinh et al.   NANO LETTERS

Two- and Three-Photon Absorption and Frequency Upconverted Emission of Silicon Quantum Dots

(2008) Guang S. He et al.   NANO LETTERS

Photovoltaic Measurements in Single-Nanowire Silicon Solar Cells

(2008) Michael D. Kelzenberg et al.   NANO LETTERS

Single and Tandem Axialp-i-nNanowire Photovoltaic Devices

(2008) Thomas J. Kempa et al.   NANO LETTERS

Effects of boron doping on the structural and optical properties of silicon nanocrystals in a silicon dioxide matrix

(2008) X J Hao et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Silicon nanowire-based solar cells

(2008) Th Stelzner et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Classification and control of the origin of photoluminescence from Si nanocrystals

(2008) S. Godefroo et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Space-separated quantum cutting with silicon nanocrystals for photovoltaic applications

(2008) D. Timmerman et al.   Nature Photonics

Ultrahigh-Q Nanocavity with 1D Photonic Gap

(2008) M. Notomi et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Realization of a near-perfect antireflection coating for silicon solar energy utilization

(2008) Mei-Ling Kuo et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Effects of simultaneous doping with boron and phosphorous on the structural, electronic and optical properties of silicon nanostructures

(2008) F. Iori et al.   PHYSICA E-LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS & NANOSTRUCTURES

Employing dielectric diffractive structures in solar cells - a numerical study

(2008) Matthias Kroll et al.   PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE

Growth kinetics and crystal structure of semiconductor nanowires

(2008) V. G. Dubrovskii et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Energy transfer in Er-dopedSiO2sensitized with Si nanocrystals

(2008) I. Izeddin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Size-Dependent Intrinsic Radiative Decay Rates of Silicon Nanocrystals at Large Confinement Energies

(2008) Milan Sykora et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Kinetics of Individual Nucleation Events Observed in Nanoscale Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth

(2008) B. J. Kim et al.   SCIENCE

Alkyl-Functionalized Oxide-Free Silicon Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Optical Properties

(2008) Milena Rosso-Vasic et al.   Small