Distinguishing the effect of surface passivation from the effect of size on the photonic and electronic behavior of porous silicon

Pan, L. K., Sun, Chang Qing, Yu, G. Q., Zhang, Q. Y., Fu, Yong Qing and Tay, Beng Kang (2004) Distinguishing the effect of surface passivation from the effect of size on the photonic and electronic behavior of porous silicon. Journal of Applied Physics, 96 (3). p. 1704. ISSN 0021 8979

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Abstract

CF4 plasma-passivation enhanced size dependence of the blueshift in photoemission and photoabsorption, E2p-level shift, and band-gap expansion of porous silicon has been measured and analyzed numerically based on the recent “bond order-length-strength” correlation [C. Q. Sun, Phys. Rev. B69, 045105 (2004)]. Matching predictions to the measurements conducted before and after fluorination reveals that fluorination further enhances both the crystal binding intensity that determines the band gap and core level shift and the electron-phonon coupling that contributes to the energies of photoemission and photoabsorption. This approach enables us to discriminate the effect of surface-bond contraction from the effect of surface-bond nature alteration on the unusual behavior of photons, phonons, and electrons in nanosolid Si.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	F200 Materials Science
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Depositing User:	Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited:	26 Mar 2015 15:09
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 19:05
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/21829

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