Improving Passivation Process of Si Nanocrystals Embedded in SiO₂ Using Metal Ion Implantation

Figure 4

(a) PL saturation curve for a sample with Si-NCs embedded in silica (blue circles) and with Si-NCs and Ag NPs (red squares), (b) lifetime PL for a set of emission wavelengths. The insets show a typical PL decay curve for sample A (upper left) and sample A(Ag) (lower right).

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