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arXiv 2005.11174cond-mat.mtrl-sci
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硅纳米晶光学性质的温度依赖性

Temperature dependence of the optical properties of silicon nanocrystals

Marios Zacharias, Pantelis C. Kelires

摘要:

硅纳米晶体(SiNCs)在过去的几十年中一直受到积极的研究,并被认为是包括高效太阳能电池在内的许多光电应用的有希望的候选者。在这些纳米结构中感兴趣的一些基本性质是它们的光吸收开始的温度依赖性,以及这是如何通过不同的钝化制度控制的。在目前的工作中,我们采用第一性原理计算结合特殊的位移方法来研究的带隙重整化的独立的氢封端的,氧化的SiNCs,以及矩阵嵌入的SiNCs在无定形二氧化硅的温度依赖性,我们得到了很好的协议与实验的光致发光数据。我们还提供了强有力的证据表明,电子-声子的相互作用在表面的氧化和周围的无定形基质的抑制。对于矩阵嵌入的SiNC,我们显示了高度的相关性之间的温度依赖性的带隙和Si-Si应变键。这一结果强调了电子-声子耦合与热结构畸变的密切关系。我们还表明,除了量子限制,硅-硅应变键是主要原因的零声子准直接跃迁在矩阵嵌入的SiNCs。作为最后一点,我们澄清,不同于体硅中的光吸收,声子辅助电子跃迁在SiNCs中起次要作用。

英文摘要:

Silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) have been under active investigation in the last decades and have been considered as a promising candidate for many optoelectronic applications including highly-efficient solar cells. Some of the fundamental properties of interest in these nanostructures is the temperature dependence of their optical absorption onset, and how this is controlled by different passivation regimes. In the present work we employ first-principles calculations in conjunction with the special displacement method to study the temperature dependence of the band gap renormalization of free-standing hydrogen-terminated, and oxidized SiNCs, as well as matrix-embedded SiNCs in amorphous silica, and we obtain good agreement with experimental photoluminescence data. We also provide strong evidence that the electron-phonon interplay at the surface of the nanocrystal is suppressed by oxidation and the surrounding amorphous matrix. For the matrix-embedded SiNCs, we show a high correlation between the temperature dependence of the band gap and the Si-Si strained bonds. This result emphasizes the immanent relationship of electron-phonon coupling and thermal structural distortions. We also demonstrate that, apart from quantum confinement, Si- Si strained bonds are the major cause of zero-phonon quasidirect transitions in matrix-embedded SiNCs. As a final point, we clarify that, unlike optical absorption in bulk Si, phonon-assisted electronic transitions play a secondary role in SiNCs.

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