Propriedades ópticas de nanocristais de SiGe: efeitos de dopagem e desordem

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2008

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We have used ab initio calculations to investigate the electronic structure of SiGe based nanocrystals (NCs). This work is divided in three parts. In the first one, we focus the excitonic properties of Si(core)/Ge(shell) and Ge(core)/Si(shell) nanocrystals. We also estimate the changes induced by the effect of strain the electronic structure. We show that Ge/Si (Si/Ge) NCs exhibits type II confinement in the conduction (valence) band. The estimated potential barriers for electrons and holes are 0.16 eV (0.34 eV) and 0.64 eV (0.62 eV) for Si/Ge (Ge/Si) NCs. In contradiction to the expected long recombination lifetimes in type II systems, we found that the recombination lifetime of Ge/Si NCs (τR = 13.39μs) is more than one order of magnitude faster than in Si/Ge NCs (τR = 191.84μs). In the second part, we investigate alloyed Si1−xGex NCs in which Ge atoms are randomly positioned. We show that the optical gaps and electron-hole binding energies decrease linearly with x, while the exciton exchange energy increases with x due to the increase of the spatial extent of the electron and hole wave functions. This also increases the electron-hole wave functions overlap, leading to recombination lifetimes that are very sensitive to the Ge content. Finally, we investigate the radiative transitions in Pand B-doped Si nanocrystals. Our NC sizes range between 1.4 and 1.8 nm of diameters. Using a three-levels model, we show that the radiative lifetimes and oscillator strengths of the transitions between the conduction and the impurity bands, as well as the transitions between the impurity and the valence bands are strongly affected by the impurity position. On the other hand, the direct conduction-to-valence band decay is practically unchanged due to the presence of the impurity

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fisica effects of doping and disorder optical sige nanocrystals Ópticas de nanocristais de sige efeitos de dopagem e desordem

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