A theoretical study of light emission from nanoscale silicon |
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Authors: | Nicola A Hill K Birgitta Whaley |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Chemistry, University of California, 94720 Berkeley, CA |
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Abstract: | In comparing our calculated exciton energies with those obtained from pseudopotential calculations (Ref. 27) and from a previous
tight binding calculation (Ref. 30), we stated that the differences between the three semi-empirical calculations arise because
of different treatment of the nanocrystal surfaces. This appears not to be correct. Subsequent calculations with variable
Si-H parameters have shown that the band gap is actually rather insensitive to the actual value of these. Instead, the important
feature appears to be the overall quality of the bulk band structure parameterization. References 27 and 30 use more extensive
and higher quality empirical parameterizations for bulk Si than the sp3s∗ model used by us. Repeating our time dependent calculations with an improved sp3d5 parameterization results in similar values to those of Refs. 27 and 30 for the exciton energies.1 The agreement of the sp3s∗ values with experimental photoluminescence energies (Fig. 7) cannot, therefore, be regarded as well understood at this
time.1,2 |
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