PRESSURE-DEPENDENCE OF PHOTOLUMINESCENCE IN AMORPHOUS-SILICON NANOPOWDER PRODUCED BY PLASMA-ENHANCED CHEMICAL-VAPOR-DEPOSITION

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作者
COSTA, J
ROURA, P
SULIMOV, NA
SARDIN, G
CAMPMANY, J
MORANTE, JR
BERTRAN, E
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[1] Departament de Fisica Aplicada i Electronica, Universitat de Barcelona
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10.1080/17432847.1995.11948728
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
The photoluminescence emission in silicon powder grown by plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition has a very unusual dependence on pressure. Its intensity diminishes exponentially, I(PL)proportional to I-0 exp(-p/p(0)), where p(o) has a value of several pascals. Consequently it is detectable only under vacuum. This dependence is analysed within the framework of a multistep multiphoton excitation process. It is shown that all exponential dependence on pressure of the dynamic constants (lifetimes and optical cross-sections involved in the model) can account qualitatively for all the experimental results.
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