Luminescence mechanism in hydrogenated silicon quantum dots with a single oxygen ligand.

Nanoscale Adv · 2021 · PMC9417146 · PMID 36133768

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It shows an overall trend where the HOMO–LUMO gaps increase with decreasing QD sizes for Si-QDs passivated by hydrogen, predicted by the quantum confinement (QC) effect, which can be depicted by a decreasing exponential curve.

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