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Journal
Description: 
The influence of boron (B)-doping and remote plasma hydrogen passivation on the photoexcited charge carrier recombination in silicon nanocrystal/SiC multilayers was investigated in detail. The samples were prepared by high temperature annealing of amorphous (intrinsic and B-doped) Si1−xCx/SiC superlattices. The photoluminescence (PL) intensity of samples with B-doped silicon rich carbide layers was found to be up to two orders of magnitude larger and spectrally red shifted in comparison with that of the other samples. Hydrogen passivation leads to an additional increase in PL intensities. The PL decay can be described well by a mono-exponential function with a characteristic decay time of a few microseconds. This behavior agrees well with the picture of localized PL centers (surface states) together with the passivation of non-radiative defects by boron. The samples with B-doped SiC layers exhibit an …
Publisher: 
American Institute of Physics
Publication date: 
21 Aug 2013
Authors: 

M Kořínek, M Schnabel, M Canino, M Kozák, F Trojánek, J Salava, P Löper, S Janz, C Summonte, P Malý

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Volume: 114 Issue: 7 Pages: 073101
Origin: 
Journal of Applied Physics