Light emission from silicon containing Sn-nanocrystals

Soren Roesgaard (1) , Etienne Talbot (2) , Jacques Chevallier (3, 1) , John Lundsgaard Hansen (3, 1) , Brian Julsgaard (3, 1)

1 iNANO - Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center
2 GPM - Groupe de physique des matériaux
3 Aarhus University [Aarhus]

This work investigates light emission from sili- con with embedded Sn nanocrystals. The composition of the nanocrystals is determined to be pure Sn by atom probe tomog- raphy, and the light emission is strongest when the nanocrystal structure is closest to the host Si lattice diamond structure.

Mots clés: Index Terms-Sn; nanocrystals; photoluminescence; atom probe tomography

Domaines: Science des matériaux [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]

Soren Roesgaard, Etienne Talbot, Jacques Chevallier, John Lundsgaard Hansen, Brian Julsgaard. Light emission from silicon containing Sn-nanocrystals. IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, Jul 2016, Newport Beach, United States. ⟨10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548539⟩. ⟨hal-01633499⟩