Strong room-temperature visible photoluminescence of amorphous Si nanowires prepared by electrodeposition in ionic liquids
Strong room-temperature visible photoluminescence of amorphous Si nanowires prepared by electrodeposition in ionic liquids
Visible photoluminescence at room temperature is reported from the silicon nanowires prepared by electrodeposition in ionic liquids. Nanowires with diameters 110, 200 and 400 nm have been synthe-sized by a template-assisted electrodeposition using ionic liquid electrolytes. The obtained nanowires are amorphous in nature and possess robustness and good structural and compositional quality. The PL measurements at room temperature reveal a strong visible light emission from the 110 nm silicon nanowires. The strong and efficient red luminescence from the nanowires is found to be size dependent and originates from the intrinsic radiative recombination and spatial confinement of carriers in the amorphous silicon nan-owires with a thin surface oxide shell. The silicon nanowires with 110 nm diameter shows an exceptionally high quantum yield > 25%. These light emitting nanowires obtained through a simple alternative growth technique could find applications in future Si-based optoelectronic devices.
amorphous silicon nanowires, electrodeposition, spatial confinement, visible luminescence
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Thomas, Shibin
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Mallet, Jeremy
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Martineau, Florie
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Rinnert, Hervé
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Molinari, Michael
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18 July 2018
Thomas, Shibin
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Mallet, Jeremy
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Martineau, Florie
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Rinnert, Hervé
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Molinari, Michael
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Thomas, Shibin, Mallet, Jeremy, Martineau, Florie, Rinnert, Hervé and Molinari, Michael
(2018)
Strong room-temperature visible photoluminescence of amorphous Si nanowires prepared by electrodeposition in ionic liquids.
ACS Photonics, 5 (7), .
(doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00208).
Abstract
Visible photoluminescence at room temperature is reported from the silicon nanowires prepared by electrodeposition in ionic liquids. Nanowires with diameters 110, 200 and 400 nm have been synthe-sized by a template-assisted electrodeposition using ionic liquid electrolytes. The obtained nanowires are amorphous in nature and possess robustness and good structural and compositional quality. The PL measurements at room temperature reveal a strong visible light emission from the 110 nm silicon nanowires. The strong and efficient red luminescence from the nanowires is found to be size dependent and originates from the intrinsic radiative recombination and spatial confinement of carriers in the amorphous silicon nan-owires with a thin surface oxide shell. The silicon nanowires with 110 nm diameter shows an exceptionally high quantum yield > 25%. These light emitting nanowires obtained through a simple alternative growth technique could find applications in future Si-based optoelectronic devices.
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Accepted/In Press date: 21 May 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 21 May 2018
Published date: 18 July 2018
Keywords:
amorphous silicon nanowires, electrodeposition, spatial confinement, visible luminescence
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/424773
ISSN: 2330-4022
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