Research Article

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

Figure 5

(a) PL saturation curve for a sample with Si-NCs embedded in silica (blue circles) and with Si-NCs and Au NPs (red squares), (b) lifetime PL for a set of emission wavelength. The insets shows a typical PL decay curve for sample A (upper left) and sample A(Au) 1 (lower right).
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