LI Cong, XU Yan-xin, HE Hong-ping. Photoluminescence of Nanocrystalline-Ge/SiN<sub><em>x</em></sub> Multilayers[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2017,38(9): 1173-1178
LI Cong, XU Yan-xin, HE Hong-ping. Photoluminescence of Nanocrystalline-Ge/SiN<sub><em>x</em></sub> Multilayers[J]. Chinese Journal of Luminescence, 2017,38(9): 1173-1178 DOI: 10.3788/fgxb20173809.1173.
Photoluminescence of Nanocrystalline-Ge/SiNx Multilayers
) multilayers (MLs) were fabricated by oxidizing hydrogenated amorphous-Ge(a-Ge:H)/a-SiN
x
multilayers. Its strong photoluminescence (PL)
peak at 500 nm
was observed at room temperature. Then
the mechanism of PL was studied
which indicated that the light emission was irrelevant to quantum confinement effect. The recombination of defects related to Si or N was also excluded. It is believed the PL of nc-Ge/SiN
x
MLs is originated from the radiative recombination of tail states of oxidized a-SiN
x
matrix
and the most effective excitation energy is close to the optical band gap of matrix.
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