Issue 25, 2009
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Chemical Communications

Controlled chemical etching for silicon nanocrystals with wavelength-tunable photoluminescence†

Keisuke Sato,*a   Hiroaki Tsuji,b   Kenji Hirakuri,b   Naoki Fukataac  and  Yusuke Yamauchi*ac  

* Corresponding authors

a World Premier International (WPI) Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
E-mail: Sato.Keisuke@nims.go.jp, Yamauchi.Yusuke@nims.go.jp

b Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Tokyo Denki University (TDU), Ishizaka, Hatoyama, Hikigun, Saitama 350-0394, Japan

c PRESTO, JST, Sanban-cho 5, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0075, Japan

Abstract

The size of silicon nanocrystals is finely tuned by applying a chemical etching process, leading to differently coloured visible luminescence.

Graphical abstract: Controlled chemical etching for silicon nanocrystals with wavelength-tunable photoluminescence

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B903313K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
17 Feb 2009
Accepted
20 Apr 2009
First published
12 May 2009

Chem. Commun., 2009, 3759-3761

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Controlled chemical etching for silicon nanocrystals with wavelength-tunable photoluminescence

K. Sato, H. Tsuji, K. Hirakuri, N. Fukata and Y. Yamauchi, Chem. Commun., 2009, 3759 DOI: 10.1039/B903313K

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