Quantum confinement in Si and Ge nanostructures: Theory and experiment

Radiative and nonradiative recombination of self-trapped exciton on silicon nanocrystal interface

(2013) A. V. Gert et al.   JETP LETTERS

Nanocrystals for silicon-based light-emitting and memory devices

(2013) S K Ray et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Analysis of enhanced light emission from highly strained germanium microbridges

(2013) M. J. Süess et al.   Nature Photonics

Photoluminescent characteristics of ion beam synthesized Ge nanoparticles in thermally grown SiO2 films

(2013) C.F. Yu et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS

Light emission from silicon nanocrystals

(2013) O. B. Gusev et al.   SEMICONDUCTORS

Room-temperature efficient light detection by amorphous Ge quantum wells

(2013) Salvatore Cosentino et al.   Nanoscale Research Letters

Quantum confinement in Si and Ge nanostructures

(2012) E. G. Barbagiovanni et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Separating multiple excitons

(2012) Arthur J. Nozik   Nature Photonics

Energy loss of protons in SrTiO3 studied by medium energy ion scattering

(2012) S.N. Dedyulin et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS

Structural, mechanical and optical properties of Ge nanocrystals embedded in superlattices fabricated by in situ low temperature annealing

(2012) B. Zhang et al.   PHYSICA E-LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS & NANOSTRUCTURES

Si and Ge nanostructures epitaxy on a crystalline insulating LaAlO3(001) substrate

(2012) Jean-Luc Bischoff et al.   PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI A-APPLICATIONS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE

Tunneling of electrons between Si nanocrystals embedded in a SiO2matrix

(2012) K. Seino et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Growth and self-organization of SiGe nanostructures

(2012) J.-N. Aqua et al.   PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS

The energy band alignment of Si nanocrystals in SiO2

(2011) G. Seguini et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Enhancement-mode buried strained silicon channel quantum dot with tunable lateral geometry

(2011) T. M. Lu et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Dependence of Optical Absorption in Silicon Nanostructures on Size of Silicon Nanoparticles

(2011) Wen-Ge Ding et al.   COMMUNICATIONS IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Recent Research on One-Dimensional Silicon-Based Semiconductor Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Structures, Properties and Applications

(2011) Zhenyu Zhang † et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN SOLID STATE AND MATERIALS SCIENCES

Bandgap shift by quantum confinement effect in 〈100〉 Si-nanowires derived from threshold-voltage shift of fabricated metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors and theoretical calculations

(2011) Hironori Yoshioka et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Symmetry reduction in multiband Hamiltonians for semiconductor quantum dots: The role of interfaces and higher energy bands

(2011) Stanko Tomić et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Optical properties of nanostructured materials: a review

(2011) François Flory   Journal of Nanophotonics

Periodic Mesoporous Hydridosilica − Synthesis of an “Impossible” Material and Its Thermal Transformation into Brightly Photoluminescent Periodic Mesoporous Nanocrystal Silicon-Silica Composite

(2011) Zhuoying Xie et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Tensile strained Ge quantum wells on Si substrate: Post-growth annealing versus low temperature re-growth

(2011) M.J. Süess et al.   Materials Science and Engineering B-Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials

Visible Colloidal Nanocrystal Silicon Light-Emitting Diode

(2011) Daniel P. Puzzo et al.   NANO LETTERS

Spin filling of valley–orbit states in a silicon quantum dot

(2011) W H Lim et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Ion beam studies of Ge diffusion in

(2011) E.G. Barbagiovanni et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS

Electronic structure study of ion-implanted Si quantum dots in a SiO2matrix: Analysis of quantum confinement theories

(2011) E. G. Barbagiovanni et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Ultrafast percolative transport dynamics in silicon nanocrystal films

(2011) Lyubov V. Titova et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Scheme to measure Majorana fermion lifetimes using a quantum dot

(2011) Martin Leijnse et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Tunable Spin Loading andT1of a Silicon Spin Qubit Measured by Single-Shot Readout

(2011) C. B. Simmons et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Optically Induced Rotation of an Exciton Spin in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot

(2011) E. Poem et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

III–V semiconductor nanowires for optoelectronic device applications

(2011) Hannah J. Joyce et al.   PROGRESS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS

Size controlled synthesis of Ge nanocrystals in SiO2 at temperatures below 400 °C using magnetron sputtering

(2010) B. Zhang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Direct bandgap optical transitions in Si nanocrystals

(2010) A. A. Prokofiev et al.   JETP LETTERS

The influence of shape and potential barrier on confinement energy levels in quantum dots

(2010) Ana-Maria Lepadatu et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

High aspect ratio silicon etch: A review

(2010) Banqiu Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Epitaxy of Si nanocrystals by molecular beam epitaxy on a crystalline insulator LaAlO3(001)

(2010) Hussein Mortada et al.   JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH

XPS and SEM studies of oxide reduction of germanium nanowires

(2010) V. Grossi et al.   JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS

Seedless Growth of Sub-10 nm Germanium Nanowires

(2010) Richard G. Hobbs et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Predicting Size Distributions of Ge Nanodots from Their Photoluminescence

(2010) D. J. Lockwood et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY

Effects of the passivating coating on the properties of silicon nanocrystals

(2010) Nacir Tit et al.   MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Spin–orbit qubit in a semiconductor nanowire

(2010) S. Nadj-Perge et al.   NATURE

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

Ge-on-Si laser operating at room temperature

(2010) Jifeng Liu et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Evidence of quantum confinement effects on interband optical transitions in Si nanocrystals

(2010) M. I. Alonso et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Exchange coupling in silicon quantum dots: Theoretical considerations for quantum computation

(2010) Qiuzi Li et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Colloquium: Structural, electronic, and transport properties of silicon nanowires

(2010) Riccardo Rurali   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Effective density of states and carrier masses for Si/SiO2superlattices from first principles

(2010) K Seino et al.   SEMICONDUCTOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Group IV Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Properties, and Biological Applications

(2010) Jiyang Fan et al.   Small

Growing nanocrystalline silicon on sapphire by molecular beam epitaxy

(2010) D. A. Pavlov et al.   TECHNICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

Characterisation of size-controlled and red luminescent Ge nanocrystals in multilayered superlattice structure

(2010) B. Zhang et al.   THIN SOLID FILMS

Thermalization of exciton states in silicon nanocrystals

(2009) Brian Julsgaard et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Stimulated emission of near-infrared radiation by current injection into silicon (100) quantum well

(2009) S. Saito et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Size-dependent interface band alignment between Si nanocrystals and lattice-matched Gd2O3

(2009) V. V. Afanas’ev et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Spurious Solutions in the Multiband Effective Mass Theory Applied to Low Dimensional Nanostructures

(2009) B. Lassen et al.   Communications in Computational Physics

A Review of Ultrahigh Efficiency III-V Semiconductor Compound Solar Cells: Multijunction Tandem, Lower Dimensional, Photonic Up/Down Conversion and Plasmonic Nanometallic Structures

(2009) Katsuaki Tanabe   Energies

Role of vacancy-type defects in the formation of silicon nanocrystals

(2009) C. R. Mokry et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Light absorption in silicon quantum dots embedded in silica

(2009) S. Mirabella et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Properties of hydrogen terminated silicon nanocrystals via a transferable tight-binding Hamiltonian, based on ab-initio results

(2009) N. C. Bacalis et al.   JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL CHEMISTRY

Photoluminescence Efficiency of Self-Assembled Ge Nanocrystals

(2009) N. L. Rowell et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY

Fabrication of precisely controlled silicon wire and cone arrays by electrochemical etching

(2009) Hong-Seok Seo et al.   MATERIALS LETTERS

Optical characteristics of Si/SiO2 multilayers prepared by magnetron sputtering

(2009) Hong Xiao et al.   MICROELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

Quantum confinement effects on electronic properties of hydrogenated 3C–SiC nanowires

(2009) A. Miranda et al.   MICROELECTRONICS JOURNAL

Spin States of the First Four Holes in a Silicon Nanowire Quantum Dot

(2009) Floris A. Zwanenburg et al.   NANO LETTERS

Encapsulated solid phase epitaxy of a Ge quantum well embedded in an epitaxial rare earth oxide

(2009) Apurba Laha et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Collective fluid dynamics of a polariton condensate in a semiconductor microcavity

(2009) A. Amo et al.   NATURE

Polarization-dependent absorption in Ge/SiGe multiple quantum wells: Theory and experiment

(2009) Michele Virgilio et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Photoluminescence dynamics and Auger fountain in three-dimensional Si/SiGe multilayer nanostructures

(2009) E.-K. Lee et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Intrinsic optical gain of ultrathin silicon quantum wells from first-principles calculations

(2009) Yuji Suwa et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Biexciton oscillator strength

(2009) M. Combescot et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Silicon-Germanium Nanostructures for Light Emitters and On-Chip Optical Interconnects

(2009) Leonid Tsybeskov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE

Coordination imperfection enhanced electron–phonon interaction and band-gap expansion in Si and Ge nanocrystals

(2009) Likun Pan et al.   SCRIPTA MATERIALIA

Si nanoparticle formation in SiO2 by Si ion implantation: Effect of energy and fluence on size distribution and on SiO2 composition

(2009) L. Nikolova et al.   SURFACE & COATINGS TECHNOLOGY

Lateral Si∕SiO2 quantum well solar cells

(2008) R. Rölver et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Improved effective mass theory for silicon nanostructures

(2008) K. Nehari et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Annealing temperature dependence of Raman scattering in Si/SiO2 superlattice prepared by magnetron sputtering

(2008) Shihua Huang et al.   APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE

Tight-binding versus effective mass approximation calculation of electronic structures of semiconductor nanocrystals and nanowires

(2008) Nguyen Hong Quang et al.   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE

Finite-Size Effect on Band Structure and Photoluminescence of Semiconductor Nanocrystals

(2008) X. Y. Lang et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NANOTECHNOLOGY

Amorphous Ge quantum dots embedded in SiO2 formed by low energy ion implantation

(2008) J. P. Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Evolution of Si suboxides into Si nanocrystals during rapid thermal annealing as revealed by XPS and Raman studies

(2008) Wali Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF CRYSTAL GROWTH

Light emission in silicon nanostructures

(2008) David J. Lockwood   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN ELECTRONICS

Electronic excitations in nanostructures: an empirical pseudopotential based approach

(2008) Gabriel Bester   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Ultrafast exciton relaxation dynamics in silicon quantum dots

(2008) C. Cimpean et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Growth of nanowires

(2008) N. Wang et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS

Electron−Phonon Coupling and Localization of Excitons in Single Silicon Nanocrystals

(2008) Jörg Martin et al.   NANO LETTERS

Study of Single Silicon Quantum Dots’ Band Gap and Single-Electron Charging Energies by Room Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

(2008) Bashir Zaknoon et al.   NANO LETTERS

Pressure-Induced Orientation Control of the Growth of Epitaxial Silicon Nanowires

(2008) A. Lugstein et al.   NANO LETTERS

Classification and control of the origin of photoluminescence from Si nanocrystals

(2008) S. Godefroo et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Direct gap related optical transitions in Ge/SiGe quantum wells

(2008) M. Bonfanti et al.   PHYSICA E-LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS & NANOSTRUCTURES

Quantum confinement regime in silicon nanocrystals

(2008) Julien Derr et al.   PHYSICA E-LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS & NANOSTRUCTURES

Optical transitions in Ge/SiGe multiple quantum wells with Ge-rich barriers

(2008) M. Bonfanti et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Photoluminescence of Ge nanocrystals self-assembled on SiO2

(2008) N.L. Rowell et al.   SUPERLATTICES AND MICROSTRUCTURES

Influence of a substrate, structure and annealing procedures on crystalline and optical properties of Si/SiO2 multiple quantum wells

(2008) T. Mchedlidze et al.   THIN SOLID FILMS

Silicon in functional epitaxial oxides: A new group of nanostructures

(2007) A. Fissel et al.   MICROELECTRONICS JOURNAL