Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding contribution by Simon Fraser University
- Demonstrates the power of isotopic enrichment for high-resolution spectroscopic characterization
- Records properties of transition metal centers in silicon with unprecedented accuracy
- A valuable step towards the realization of silicon-based lighting
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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This dissertation presents the results of ultra-high resolution photoluminescence studies of these centres in specially prepared, highly enriched 28-Si samples. The greatly improved spectral resolution due to this enrichment led to the discovery of isotopic fingerprints. These fingerprints have revealed that the detailed constituents of all of the centres previously studied had been identified incorrectly. They also revealed the existence of several different families of impurity complexes containing either four or five atoms chosen from Li, Cu, Ag, Au, and Pt. These centres’ constituents have been determined, together with no-phonon transition energies, no-phonon isotope shifts, local vibrational mode energies, and the isotope shifts of the local vibrational mode energies. The data presented here for these centres should prove useful for the currently sought theoretical explanations of their formation, stability, and properties.
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Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Canada
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transition-Metal Defects in Silicon
Book Subtitle: New Insights from Photoluminescence Studies of Highly Enriched 28Si
Authors: Michael Steger
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35079-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-35078-8Published: 19 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43808-0Published: 08 February 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-35079-5Published: 26 February 2013
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 97
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Solid State Physics, Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Metallic Materials, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
Industry Sectors: Electronics, Energy, Utilities & Environment